Discussions in Economics and Statistics
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ISBN13: 9780217709415
Paperback|9780217709415
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DEFECTS OF THE CENSUS OF 1870. In preparing for the census of 1870, Mr. Walker endeavored to secure radical changes la the law covering the census. A bill, prepared for this purpose, passed the House of Representatives, but failed in the Senate. Mr. Walker, however, continued to press upon the attention of Congress his convictions, which were deepened by the practical experience obtained as Superintendent of the Ninth Census. Much of what he wrote upon this topic is necessarily of limited interest, but no record of Mr. Walker's contributions to statistical art would be complete without some reference to this labor. It is best told in the several reports made while superintendent of the census, and in the prefaces of various volumes of both the Ninth and Tenth Census. The following extract, taken from a letter dated New Haven, January 30, 1874, to the Centennial Committee of the House of Representatives in regard to the feasibility of a census of the United States to be taken in 1875, illustrates in a relatively brief form, the careful thought and minute attention which Mr. Walker gave to the question of census administration. This extract has also been chosen because it gives references to volumes of the census which discuss at greater length the points involved. The conclusions here expressed are again insisted upon in Mr. Walker's Report a Superintendent of the Census, January 17, 1878, and resulted finally in a change in the organic census law, providing for the census of 1880. Points three and four in this letter, relating to the probable cost of a census in 1875, and to the census proposed to be taken under State authorities, are omitted: Nkw Haven, Conn., January 80, 1874. Deab Sib: Agreeably to the request of the Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the I...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217709415 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217709419 |
| Weight | 0.85 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $20.76 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 258 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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