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MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 340 



Sixty-nine Towns with Population Below 10,000 



The index of population for 69 towns with population below 10,000 has been 

 constantly rising through the entire period, being about 3 times as high in 

 1933 as in 1837. The number of industrial employees, while displaying an 

 irregular movement, on the whole kept up with population growth until 1895. 

 It declined in 1905 and then recovered in the period ending with 1927. A sharp 

 decline registered in 1933 coincided with the low level of business activity in 

 that year. The number of industrial establishments moved upward in ac- 

 cordance with the other two items until 1895, when a decline set in until the 

 end of the period. As explained above, the sharp break in this index in 1905 

 is to be interpreted in the light of changes in the methods of statistical enu- 

 meration. 



Trend in Population, Industrial Establishments, and Wage Earners, 1837 - 1927 or '33 



1895 = 100 



SIXTY-NINE TOWNS WITH POPULATION BELOW 10,000 



INDEX 

 NUMBERS 



150 



100 



-H >-r 



POPULATION 



I I I I 1 1 I— $ }J 



37 45 55 65 75 85 95 05 27 33 



