Show FOR A WORLD CENSUS SCHEME TO HAVE ALL CIVILIZED NATIONS TAKE IT simultaneously fourteen nations navo decided to take one within a few months month of each othor other all blay bo be asked to name the same date other oilier information De desired Alred A movement is on foot to b have ave it a universal census taken at tho beginning of the next con century tury it had bad its inception at tho the biennial meeting of the international statistical institute recently hold bold at bern switzerland at tho the instance of dr guillama Guil lame director of tho the statistical office of the federal government of switzerland a committee was appointed by the institute to collect information as to the possibility and best methods of taking a synchronous census of each civilized country in hi 1000 1900 tho the committee will consider the best methods by winch which uniformity can bo be introduced into the collection and tabulation of data EO that facile ond and creditable comparisons can be made the committee thus far has made one report which recommends that the opinions of the lending leading statistical experts of the different countries be obtained on these points and laid before the next meeting of the institute it in 1897 1 the committee will then decide whether or notto not to advise the carrying out of the project it is believed that such a census taken as it is proposed in 1900 would prove of the greatest value to the various governments to social economists and scientific men generally it is not cot believed that the scheme though a difficult one to carry out is impracticable fourteen nations have already fixed either 1000 1900 or 1901 as the year in which the next enumeration of their population will vill be taken the following is a list of these nations with the presumable date upon which the census will be taken netherlands dec 81 31 1899 portugal jall jaa 1 1000 1900 denmark feb 1 1900 united states 1000 germany dec 1 1900 switzerland dec 1 1300 1900 austrin austria dec 31 1900 belgium dec 31 1900 hungary dec 31 1900 sweden dec 1 31 I 1900 norway jan 1 1901 great britain and ireland april 6 5 1901 france april 12 1901 italy dec 31 1901 it is sate safe to say that of these 14 countries 9 will in all probability take a census of their population in 1900 tho the netherlands and norway it is seen been will practically ditke their census in tb tha same year great britain and ireland and france will take their census about lour months later than the close of 1900 while italy will take hers one year later it if it is decided that a universal census be talen taken all over the lie w N orld on oil the sam earne I 1 day a conference of representatives 0 of f the various nations will be called and a date for the enumeration chosen supposing posing that dec 31 1900 1000 be chosen tile tho first six countries in the above list will simply postpone their censuses for a term varying from 12 months for tho the netherlands to one month for switzerland r the last four countries would have to have census dates moved forward to the minimum extent of one d day ay for norway to one year for italy such states as ire are not mentioned in the above list have no regular dates for census taking and the statisticians 1 interested I te in the scheme b olieve believe that they would readily assent to enumerating their populations simultaneously with the other Dat nations lations ions if the universal census scheme be carried through it is hiob probable able that certain questions will be asked of each individual with a view of obtaining other vs valuable 1 u information than a mere enuce enumeration ration these questions would be so formulated rou in the various languages that they would have precisely the same meaning everywhere and the answers answer a would allow international comparisons the question of occupations will be a most important one the international institute in 1691 suggested a grouping of occupations holding that from a view of social economics the question of mortality in occupations is most important por tant and that this mortality can only bo be calculated from a scientific classification of occupations new york sun |