ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the variety of statistical tables that can be worked out in a developed country, taking as examples natality and mortality. Most current mortality statistics report numbers of deaths classified by sex and age. Statistics concerning population changes should account for physical movement, that is to say for international and internal migrations as well as for vital events. As a general rule, demographic inquiries seek to ascertain, as precisely as possible, some of the details that statistics carried out on a large scale ordinarily leave aside: migratory movements and demographic history of families. The French statistical year book presents a collection of statistics concerning essentially the economic and social life of the country; under this heading certain data from the censuses and the vital statistics are recapitulated in the yearbooks. Every activity in demographic analysis must be derived from statistical information obtained basically by familiarity with tables of numbers.
