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The Census of 1921. Some Remarks on Tabulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

F. A. A. Menzler
Affiliation:
Government Actuary's Department

Extract

It will be recalled that the President remarked in his recent Address that a paper of modest scope on the tabulation of the coming Census would be welcome as a means of promoting a discussion at this Institute. The present paper has accordingly been written in the hope that it may serve to elicit suggestions, for possible submission to the authorities, as to points in censal tabulation in which actuaries are specially interested. The fact that important data as to ages of children in relation to the ages of parents will be available for the first time as a result, of the forthcoming Census seems to make it specially advisable that the actuarial profession should consider the subject of tabulation while there is yet time to give effect to practicable proposals. For this reason the present paper is confined to questions of tabulation. Presumably there will be opportunity later for consideration of the many interesting questions that arise upon the subjects of graduation and adjustment and with regard to the National life Tables.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1921

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References

page 346 note * i.e., statistics derived from a question of the type of the 1911 Fertility question.

page 362 note * The following is an illustration of the method understood to have been used by Sir George Hardy and Mr. Wyatt. Vol. X, Table 3, p. 14, of the 1911 Census gives the following data, under Order VI, for

(1) Livery Stable Keepers; Coach and Cab Proprietors.

(2) Carmen, Carriers, Carters, Wagoners (not Farm).

Reducing the age-distribution figures proportionately to eliminate “Others,“ we may write

(3) gives the age-distribution of 8,120 “Employers” and “Working on Own Account.”

page 373 note * The following extract from the Provisional Census Regulations shows the form in which the question will be asked :–