Abstract
The Statistics in this section cover a wide range of topics and corne from a variety of sources. The occupation data up to 1966 were largely derived by Professor Bairoch and his colleagues from national censuses of population. The problems of accuracy referred to in the last section appear here also. But a still more significant difficulty is the very considerable variations which have occurred in classification, both between countries and over time. Professor Bairoch’s group refer to ‘the frequent changes in criteria and methods used in census taking’, and say that ‘It is practically impossible to come up with statistics that are perfectly comparable in time and space’.1 The best we can hope for, therefore, is that the figures in table 1 are usable as a guide to structural changes within countries, and for rough international comparisons.
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SOURCES: The immediate source of most statistics up to 1961 is P. Bairoch et al, The Working Population and its Structure (Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1968).
Canadian statistics for 1891 and 1901 are taken from M. C. Urquhart and K. A. H. Buckley (eds.), Historical Statistics of Canada (Cambridge and Toronto, 1965);
Argentinian statistics for 1895 are taken from Ernesto Tornquist & Co. Ltd, The Economic Development of the Argentine Republic in the last Fifty Years (Buenos Aires, 1919).
SOURCES: ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics (1935–), and the national publications on p. xiv–xvi.
The US figures to 1928 were derived by Historical Statistics of the United States from Stanley Lebergott, Manpower in Economic Growth (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1964).
SOURCES: The main sources used were ILO, Year Book (1931–34);
ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics (1935–); and the national publications on p. xiv–xvi.
In addition the following were used: Canada to 1958– M.C. Urquhart and K.A.H. Buckley, Historical Statistics of Canada (Cambridge and Toronto, 1965);
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Mitchell, B.R. (1993). Labour Force. In: International Historical Statistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13071-9_2
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