Report on Vital and Social Statistics in the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890. Part II., Vital Statistics. Cities of 100,000 Population and Upward

The United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.

Reengineering Vital Registration and Statistics Systems for the United States

For more than a hundred years, the United States has operated a decentralized vital statistics system as an essential component of public health. Statistics based on births and deaths registered in the United States are a primary source of data used to track health status, to plan, implement, and evaluate health and social services, and to set health policy. The national vital statistics system...

The Elements of Vital Statistics

Vital Statistics During the War *

The most essential commodity for the prosecution of the war was people-people to fight the war, people to produce war material, and people to whom critical material had to be diverted for the production of essential civilian goods. Thus, it was important to have current knowledge, and in many cases a future picture, of the population, its composition and distribution as well as the forces affec...

Interpretation of Vital Statistics

The field of vital statistics is as open to investigation, analysis and experimentation as it was three hundred years ago when John Graunt (1620 -1674) introduced the observations on the London Bills of Mortality. The research possibilities are sometimes overlooked by statisticians and demographers because the registration systems now established in developed countries seem routinized and steri...