Sir T. POLSONasked the Prime Minister what progress has been made in tabulating the detailed information obtained by the Census; when the special Reports dealing with foreign-born population, occupations and industries, housing, workplaces in relation to residence, and education will be published; how many persons are engaged on the task of compiling these statistics; and what is the estimated cost of compiling and publishing the Reports?
§ Sir A. MONDAs stated in the Registrar-General's Preliminary Census Report, the substantive Reports will, in the first instance, be issued in county parts comprising for each county the bulk of the statistics referred to in the question relative to the area included. The residue will be issued in the form of subject volumes when the tabulation for the whole country is complete. Following upon the initial operations common to all the returns, work has been undertaken upon the County of London and the adjacent counties, and it is expected that the first Reports will be issued in the course of the next two or three months. A staff of 419 persons is at present employed at the Census Office, and it is estimated that 2405W for the whole period from the date of the Census the total cost of the staff required for tabulating the returns and compiling and preparing all the Reports will not exceed £110,000. No estimate can at present be given of the cost of printing the Reports, which will depend upon a number of future considerations not at present ascertainable.