This article critically evaluates the available data on trends in divorce in the United States. We find that both vital statistics and retrospective survey data on divorce after 1990 underestimate recent marital instability. These flawed data have led some analysts to conclude that divorce has been stable or declining for the past three decades. Using new data from the American Community Survey...

Little attention lias hitherto been paid to the ital Statistics" of the vast civil population of India. While the European and Native Armies, the jails, hospitals, and asylums of all kinds, have for years possessed a sanitary historian and statistician in the persons of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India and his Statistical Officer, the civil community, represented by millio...

of Deaths in the Amballa Division of the Panjab (Principal Cities and Towns), during the year 1870.

Textile industry is one of the biggest industries of the world. Workers engaged in the textile industries around the world are exposed to different sets of chemicals including dyes, solvents, finishing chemicals and metals including Cu, Cr, Ni etc. Many of these chemicals including dyes have been identified as carcinogenic to humans. The exposure of the workers to such carcinogenic chemicals re...

Dr Nasseri has registered valid concerns (1) about reengineering vital registration and statistics systems for the United States (2), many of which I share. Certainly the move to state-of-the-art information technology will not be the only key to rejuvenating the vital statistics system. We must not miss this opportunity to improve both the quality and the content of the information provided by...