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INTRODUCTION.
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With regard to the industrial activity in the country, annual Tables
of statistics have been for many years published by the Board of Trade.
These statistics were early drawn up in such a way as to afford much
more information than those published by other countries. The results,
however, long fell short of the intention, by reason of the incompleteness
and unreliability in the figures given; it is not until after the date
when a special statistical department of the Board of Trade was
established, with an adequate staff of clerks, that the results arrived at
and published can be received as trustworthy. The drawing up of the
Tables has been much facilitated by the Law of November 13, 1896,
whereby it is made obligatory upon industrial concerns to hand in
prescribed statistics. It is beyond doubt that the figures now published
for Swedish manufactories and handicrafts are more complete and more
trustworthy than those of any other country. As a matter of fact,
Sweden is the only country that every year publishes statistics of
manufactories, embracing all the various industries.
In dealing below with the several branches of industry, the same
subdivision is adopted as in the official statistics; objections of a minor
character to this might be brought forward, but it has the great merit
of being the same as has been in use for our trade statistics during three
decades, a circumstance that renders comparison between the figures for
production and those for imports and exports very much simpler.
1. ARTICLES FOR NUTRIMENT OR INDULGENCE.
This large group, including, on the basis of value, 30 % of the
industrial produce of Sweden, may be subdivided — in accordance with
the character of the raw materials employed in production, or with that
of the product in question — as here follows, with figures for 1900, into:
Factories. Workmen. Value of production.1
Products from Grain and Roots..............................1,934 6,596 105,844,000 kronor.
Dairy produce ..................................................................1,688 5,800 57,000,000 >
Other Food-stuffs from the Animal Kingdom 102 1,409 18,832,000 >
Sugar, Chocolate, Tobacco, etc................. 226 13,025 103,141,000 >
Drinkables, etc...............................................1,093_8J40_103,432,000 .
Total 5,043 35,570 387,240,000 kronor.
A survey of the imports and exports of articles belonging to this
group is given in Table 116, on the following page. As seen from the
same, our country has long had to import food-stuffs in considerably
greater quantities than it is capable to export. The deficit amounted
in 1896/1900 to a value of 64 million kronor on an average, and reached
1 A krona = 1 10 shilling or 02G8 dollar.
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