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The demand for skilled workers continues especially
in the aircraft, building and engineering industries.
3. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
The crude birth and death rates for local areas cannot
properly be compared by reason of the fact that the populations
on which they are based may be of widely differing sex and age
constitutions. Consequently the Registrar General provides a
comparability factor for each area. When the crude rate of any
area is multiplied by this factor an adjusted rate is produced
which can be used to compare with the adjusted rate of any other
area, or with the crude rate for England and Wales as a whole
(where the comparability factor is unity).
The comparability factors for Kingston are Births 0.96;
Deaths 0.92.
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The birth and death rates in respect of the town are
shown overleaf and for the purpose of providing some comparison
the rates for England and Wales are also shown. It will be
noticed that the rates for Kingston-upon-Thames are lower than
for the country as a whole.