a oS : we hy ato Oo Lnes - Report of Committee on Uniform Tables Appointed by The American public | Health Association. : Annual Report , New York State Dept. of Health 1912. fhe committee appointed to cooperate with a corresp onding committee of the American Statistical Association and with the » Bureau of the Census begs leave to submit the accompanying memorandum on uniform tables as its report of progress, with the request that such of the specific recommendeation as may seem advisable be adopted as rules of statistical practice. The cooperating committee of the American Statistical 2 Association, through its chairman, Professor Walter F, Willcox, Pe presents a draft of a report of the Association, with forms : of tables, which is incorporated in this report, subject to any amendments or alterations that may be made, prior to its adoption, by the American Statistical Association. : There is also appended to this report a circular letter issued by the Bureau of the Census, and it is urged that the report be published, if feasible, perhaps as a census pamphlet, as a basis upon which definitive recommendations and forms of tables may be presented for adoption at the next session of the Association. | ‘“ The problems involved are so far reaching and difficult 3 in their practical solution that it would seem unnecessary to —~ proceed slowly and cautiously rather than to exhibit undue haste vin the formulation of proposed forms. r Respectfully submitted, — Wm. C.Woodward Marshall Langton Price Chas. A,Hodgetts F.L.Watkins Committee, Memoranda on Uniform Tables for Vital Statistics. 1. It is more expedient to discuss the general question of securing uniformity and to agree upon some general principles than it is to adopt at this time any actual forms of standard tables. 2s Standard tables should be considered with reference to their appropriateness for, first, the census reports; second, state reports and bulletins; third, city reports and bulletins. : Se Census reports should deal primarily with states and large cities, giving only the fundamental data for small cities a | and counties. They should deal with data in the mass, for broad comparisons chiefly, and to establish standards (e.g.,corrected rates, general life tables) with which local comparisons can be made. _Ns¥-State Depti of Hea}th-anmual Report~1022. 4, State reports should begin where census reports leave off, and study the state as a unit; and they should give special : attention to counties and groups of counties ( e.g. see Bulle- tins of Indiana, Michigan, and New York ), and should present | data in considerable detail for small cities and villages,singly and grouped into cities of from 5,000 to 10,000 population,etc. They may even take up the individual towns or townships when such units are important, but they should hot go into the sub- divisions of large cities that maintain an efficient registra- tion service, 5. City reports, especially those of large cities, should deal with the primary units of area (city blocks) grouped into such larger aggregates ( wards or sanitary districts) as may be found advisable, and they should specialtize on morbidity statistics and their relation to mortality statistics. 6, Whatever mortality statistics are worth printing et all are, as a rule, worth printing with full details of sex, age, and color ( when colored pepulation is ten or more percent) « This refers to the primary tables. 7. "Unknowns" should never be"distributed" but should appear — as a criterion of registrative efficiency for sex, age,color and all other fmumux items. | 8S, Important general tables, and especially those for causes of death, should show ages, by sez, for each xm quinguennial period from 0-4 to 95-99. The first quinquennial peried should be subdivided into single years. A detailed list of centenarians should be given, and for infant mortality the first year of life should be stated by months, the first month by weeks, and the first week should show at least the first five days individually. For tables of occupations the periods should be: 10-14, 15-19, — 20-24, 35-44, 45-54, 5564, 65-74,75-84 and 85 and over, with special statement for children under 10 years, when child workers under that age are found. : .9. All main tables of causes of death in reports of states and large cities should use the detailed International Classifi- cation whthout change or alteration, except the Subdivisions (but not additions or changes) of titles may be made when necessary. For minor tables in the same way, and for special purposes shorte! selected lists may be made, each title representing certain de- finite tikles of the detailed International Classification. Fach title should bear its International Classification number to assure ease of comparison and certahnty in regard to the in- ¢lusion of terms. 10. For the following diseases, tables should be presemued by calendar months and by the regular series of age periods until less than five per cent may be embraced in the final period: _ Typhoid fever : Malarial fever Measles Searlet Fever Whooping Cough Diphtheria and croup 0 Influenza Tuberculosis Bronchitis Pneumonia N.y.State Dept.Health-Annual Report - 1912 . Ss -« Bronchitis renumonia 7 Diarrhea and entritis By months, Weeks ahd days of age. Congenital debility, ete By months, weeks and days of age. a Causes of death with death rates should be presen’ ed for each year since eginning of registration if pract- teable according to the abridged International Classification, | . otherwise according to the list of the International Table of the Registran-Ceneral's Report. oe 12. The first general tables constructed ghould pro-= vide for the data contained in the main tables of the inter= — national statistics of the Statistique Generale of France. | | 13. Every report should contain a table showing the dates and population, by sex and agesy. at several recent censuses ° - * | 14. Every report should contain a table showing the elements of population, by sex, age, color, nativity, etc., at — aoe CONnBUS »