Show county holds Its Own in population County had an population of per-on January 1958 accord- ing to a recent study in the Utah Economic and Business published by the Bureau of Economic and Business University of There is no charge from a year ago and a per cent decrease from the population df County shows a 1958 estimated population of as compared with in and In This gives the other Basin county a during 1957 and since The population cf Utah on January as nearly as can be This gain of persons during 1957 and persons atnee 1950 represents almost a 25 per cent increase for the a rate nearly that of national Of Utah's 29 13 have a smaller population in in Of the remaining all of which showed a population eight counties have increased at a rate than the overall state The population changes for individual counties since 1950 ranged from a of per cent for Grand County to a 16 per cent decrease for Piute A explanation of the Procedure followed in making the 1958 population estimates help evaluate their In order to facilitate that preparation of the January 1958 population the Utah Population Work Committee assigned the Bureau of Economic Business Research and the Utah Committee on Industrial and Employment Planning the job of gathering and assembling available data concerning changes in population during 1957 and to review the estimates made just a year Data were gathered on several measures of population change an each including such things as natural increase of births over labor school utility new home etc On the basis of the changes reflected by these the current estimates of county population wore |