Prosperity and Depression
Appendix II
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Industrial Production.
Indices of production in investment goods industries and in consumers’ goods industries.
1880-1918: Economic Intelligence Service of the League of Nations.
1919-1935: Federal Reserve Board.
Employment.
A. Indices of employment in producers’ goods and in consumers’ goods industries.
1899-1918: From Professor P. H. DOUGLAS, The Theory of Wages.
1919-1935: From the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
B. Actual number of workpeople employed in producers’ goods and in consumers’ goods industries according to the Censuses of Manufactures.
1919-1935: Census years.
UNITED KINGDOM
Industrial Production.
Index of production of producers’ goods and of consumers’ goods.
1880-1928: HOFFMANN. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, September 1934.
1929-1935: From the Board of Trade.
Employment.
A. Percentage of workpeople wholly employed (= 100—the percentage of unemployment) in producers’ goods and in consumers’ goods industries.
1880-1923, among trade-unionists (for consumers’ goods up to 1914 only): Abstract of Labour Statistics.
1924-1935, among compulsorily insured workers: Abstract of Labour Statistics.
B. Number of workpeople wholly employed among compulsorily insured workers in producers’ goods and in consumers’ goods industries.
1924-1935: Abstract of Labour Statistics.
GERMANY
Industrial Production.
Indices of production of producers’ goods and of consumers’ goods of the Institut für Konjunkturforschung.
1880-1913: Vierteljahreshefte zur Konjunkturforschung, Sonderheft Nr. 31, 1933.
1925-1935: Konjunkturstatistisches Handbuch, 1936.
Employment.
A. Percentage of workpeople wholly or partially employed among organised workers in producers’ goods and in consumers’ goods industries.
1924-1932: Statistisches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reich.
B. 1888-1912, 1923-1934: Number of persons insured against accident in German industrial unions, in capital-producing and in other industries. Statistiches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reich. (Figures for 1888-1909 have been reproduced from G. CASSEL, The Theory of Social Economy, Vol. II, and his classification has been adopted for the rest of the period.)
SWEDEN
Industrial Production.
Indices of production of investment goods and of consumers’ goods.
1880-1912 (Consumers’ goods, 1909-1912): Economic Intelligence Service of the League of Nations.
1913-1935: From the index of the Kommerskollegium.
Employment.
A. Percentage of employment among trade-unionists in producers’ goods and in consumers’ goods industries. Statistisk Arsbok.
1920-1935: Producers’ goods industries.
1921-1935: Consumers’ goods industries.
B. Number of workers engaged in producers’ goods and in consumers’ goods industries.
1913-1935: Industri, annual report of the Kommerskollegium.
AUSTRALIA
Employment.
A. Percentage of employment among trade-unionists in producers’ goods and in consumers’ goods industries.
1912-1935: Official Year-Book of the Commonwealth of Australia,
B. Number of workers employed in producers’ goods and in consumers’ goods industries.
1904-1935: Production Statistics. Annual report of the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics.
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2 See pages 280 and 281.
