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Two centuries of Serbian state in modern times has already been mentioned and commemorated by the representatives of many professions. By this publication, the statistical professionals wish to join the strivings taken to present the development of Serbia from the First Serbian uprising to the present days.
Numerous factors limit the possibility that the country development in such a long period of time is described by the use of statistical figures. Firstly, the statistical service in Serbia was founded as late as in 1862. Scarce are the data acceptable for the earlier times and statistics did not start at once to record everything that is nowadays covered by the programs of surveys of mass phenomena. Secondly, wars used to break up the continuity of statistical work and the state territorial changes endangered the data comparability of long series. Thirdly, the development brought changes to the subjects of surveys, created new and different tasks for statistics and forced the adjustment of methodology to new circumstances. The deep changes of statistical system were induced through the take over of the civil society by the socialist order and eventually through the transition of the socialist economy into the market-oriented economy. Simultaneously the official statistics changed the organization, programs and methods of surveys, as well as a large number of definitions and classifications. All these made it more difficult to create comparative series for such a long period. |
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