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... Matters of Employment . Insufficient Employment . Poorly Paid Employment . Unhealthy or Dangerous Employment . Ignorance JO English . Accident . No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % - 3 1 3 .4 NO 2 .4 14 2.0 28 4.0 90 13.0 55 8.0 41 6.0 ...
... Matters of Employment . Insufficient Employment . Poorly Paid Employment . Unhealthy or Dangerous Employment . Ignorance JO English . Accident . No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % - 3 1 3 .4 NO 2 .4 14 2.0 28 4.0 90 13.0 55 8.0 41 6.0 ...
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... matter what his spirit is , must , to a certain degree , be conventional , for it must be official in its character ; but the Association to which we are devoted can put this spirit into its work in inter- preting the statistics of the ...
... matter what his spirit is , must , to a certain degree , be conventional , for it must be official in its character ; but the Association to which we are devoted can put this spirit into its work in inter- preting the statistics of the ...
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... matter of common observation . It is so obvious a fact that we do not need statistics to prove it . In order to measure the strength of such a tendency , it is true , we need statistics , and statistics of such a kind as are very ...
... matter of common observation . It is so obvious a fact that we do not need statistics to prove it . In order to measure the strength of such a tendency , it is true , we need statistics , and statistics of such a kind as are very ...
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... matter of concentration of wealth as it does when one uses fixed class boundaries or any method which involves definition of the large fortune absolutely . If the character of the actual statistics permitted the plotting of a ...
... matter of concentration of wealth as it does when one uses fixed class boundaries or any method which involves definition of the large fortune absolutely . If the character of the actual statistics permitted the plotting of a ...
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... matters . But , if the class of middling incomes is being reinforced by the growth of the salaried class , and if , never- theless , that class is no more than , or barely more than , holding its own , as compared accounts for the ...
... matters . But , if the class of middling incomes is being reinforced by the growth of the salaried class , and if , never- theless , that class is no more than , or barely more than , holding its own , as compared accounts for the ...
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Page 36 - Provided, that no such government shall be erected or constituted in any town not containing twelve thousand inhabitants; nor unless it be with the consent and on the application of a majority of the inhabitants of such town, present and voting thereon, pursuant to a vote at a meeting duly warned and holden for that purpose...
Page 76 - That any person that shall knowingly make a false affidavit for such purpose shall be deemed guilty of perjury and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by...
Page 31 - cause to be taken on a special schedule of inquiry, according to such form as he may prescribe, the names, organizations, and length of service of those who had served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States in the war of the rebellion, and who are survivors at the time of said inquiry, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines.
Page 77 - And it shall be the duty of every owner, proprietor, manager, superintendent, or agent of a hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building, when requested by the Director of the Census, or by any supervisor, enumerator, special agent, or other employee of the Census Office, acting under the instructions of the said director, to furnish the...
Page 9 - The Worth of a Penny: or, A Caution to keep Money. WITH THE CAUSES OF THE SCARCITY AND MISERY OF THE WANT THEREOF, in these hard and Merciless Times. As also HOW TO SAVE IT, in OUR DIET, APPAREL, RECREATIONS, &c.
Page 75 - That if any person shall receive or secure to himself any fee, reward, or compensation as a consideration for the appointment or employment of any person as enumerator or clerk or other employee, or shall in any way receive or secure to himself any part of the compensation...
Page 76 - Office, so as to permit of the collection of statistics for census purposes, including the proper and correct enumeration of all persons having their usual place of abode in said hotel• apartment house, boarding...
Page 72 - ... individual living out of a family competent to answer the inquiries made in compliance with the requirement of this act, then it shall be lawful for the enumerator to obtain the required information as nearly as may be practicable from the family or families or person or persons living nearest to such place of abode who may be competent to answer such inquiries.
Page 79 - Census is further authorized, in his discretion, to furnish to individuals such data from the population schedules as may be desired for genealogical or other proper purposes...
Page 24 - Proceedings of the annual conventions of the Association of Officials of Bureaus of Labor Statistics of America: Fourteenth (1898), Nineteenth (1903), Twentieth (1904), Twenty-first (1905), and Twenty-second (1906).