Apercu de la Demographie des Divers Pays de Monde, 1929-1936.Review by: Henry S. Shryock, Jr.Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 34, No. 208 (Dec., 1939), pp. 779-780Published by: American Statistical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2279844 .

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Industriat Market Data Handbook of the United States, by 0. C. Holleran. Washington, D. C.: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 1939. iv, 907 pp. $2.50. The Industrial Market Data Handbook contains chiefly data on location

and extent of manufacturing and mining activity. Indeed, over three- fourths of it is a tabulation of the number and kind of manufacturing plants in each county. Total manufacturing activity is shown for cities with popu- lation over 10,000, for counties, and for each of the 33 industrial areas; the geographic limits of the industrial areas, however, should not have been omitted. For specific industries, manufacturing data are shown for the United States only; county data for bituminous coal (erroneously labeled "all coal"), metal, and total mining are presented also. Brief but significant inclusions are tables on marketing channels employed by important manu- facturing classes, with detail on location, by county, of wholesalers for spe- cified lines. Some of the information was specially tabulated and published here for the first time.

Undoubtedly, the extensive data combined in this volume will be of con- siderable value to marketing specialists and others. In future editions more attention should be given to condensing, without loss of data, the many pages on location of manufacturing plants and at the same time indicating within some limits the size of the concerns. Statistics by industry for the 33 industrial areas and for states would make the handbook more complete. Tonnage figures for coal are another possible addition.

DAVID SCHENKER University of Pittsburgh

Apergu de la dgmographie des divers pays du monde, 1929-1936. La Haye: Office permanent de la Institut International de Statistique. 1939. 433 pp. Fl. 8. The last previous volume of the International Statistical Institute's

statistical survey of world demography was for 1931. The Secretary of the Permanent Office assures us in his introduction that henceforth the pub- lication will remain an annual one, but recent events may prevent the ful- fillment of this intention. The new tables and other innovations generally represent commendable improvements.

There are two tables showing population by age, one by broad functional groups and the other by narrower intervals. Many of the other distributions are also given by age and sex. In addition to the usual population totals, sex ratios, and densities, we find statistics on religious affiliation, illiteracy, country of birth, juridical nationality, language, and certain physical and mental impairments.

The subjects of marriage and divorce are covered in great detail, through both census and vital statistics. Among the more unusual tables are one

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giving the average annual number of new marriages per 1,000 marriageables 15 years and older by sex and previous marital condition and another giving an ingenious cohort arrangement representing the number of single persons at age n remaining from a radix of 10,000 at age 15. One can find also the number of marriages that are the initial matrimonial venture for both parties and divorces distributed by duration of marriage or by number of children born. In the statistics of marriage and divorce, the United States is usually represented by only four or five states.

This publication for the first time gives gross and net reproduction rates, although as yet no intrinsic rates of natural increase are shown. Age-specific fertility rates are both tabulated and graphed for a number of countries. There is also a table of births per 1,000 women 15-44 years of age in both the actual and stationary populations, the ratio of these measures yielding Burgd6rfer's approximation to the net reproduction rate.

Crude death rates are supplemented by death rates in the stationary population, the latter with its control of age-composition representing an excellent index of relative mortality. Moreover, its reciprocal, the complete expectation of life at birth, is given for a much longer list of countries. Tabulations of the functions 9, I., and qx make up an extensive section on life tables. The absolute number of deaths by cause is given for several different years. Unfortunately, there are no cause-specific rates nor is the incidence of these causes by age and sex ever shown.

Qualifying notes indicate the areas or races not covered, but there are no notes to warn the reader of the highly approximate character of some of the figures. Some vital rates for 1937 appear in special tables that were evi- dently prepared after the main tables were ready. The Statistical Year-Book of the League of Nations, which came out only two months later, carried many rates for 1938. When the Aperfu appears annually, a special effort should be made to include more recent figures in a preliminary table.

HENRY S. SHRYOCK, JR. U. S. Bureau of the Census

The Health of College Students, by Harold S. Diehl and Charles E. Shepard. Washington, D. C.: American Council on Education. A Report to the American Youth Commission. 1939. viii, 169 pp. $1.50. This book reviews the health problems of students in American colleges

and defines these problems in respect to the ability of the various colleges to solve them. It was found that there were no statistics on health programs in the American colleges until about 15 years ago. The only type of health education which prevailed was physical education and gymnastic work.

The authors review the incidence of nutritional defects, defects of vision, dental caries, defects of heart and lungs, defects in circulation, as well as the result of various blood and urine tests among college students. The fig-

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