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The Demographic Situation in the United States of America and In England and Wales*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2014

C. J. Thomas
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The present is a particularly appropriate time to embark on a comparison of the demographic situation in the United States of America and that in England and Wales. P. K. Whelpton's study, Cohort Fertility: Native White Women in the United States, and the Report on the Family Census of 1946 conducted under the auspices of the Royal Commission on Population, have recently been published. These two works, one American and the other British, deserve careful study. This paper is designed mainly to make a broad comparison of the populations of the two countries and to provide a background for readers of Whelpton's book and of the Family Census Report.

The author wishes to acknowledge the ready assistance he received, on all occasions, from officials of the U.S. National Office of Vital Statistics and of the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Staple Inn Actuarial Society , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , 1956 , pp. 231 - 259
Copyright
Copyright © Institute of Actuaries Students' Society 1956

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The comparison can be taken further, to include France, by reading ‘France and Great Britain—a demographic comparison’, by P. R. Cox, J.S.S. 12, 100, Nov. 1953. The author is grateful to Mr Cox for reading an early version of the paper and for suggestions which have led to improvements in presentation.

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