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Cento e vinte anos de produção mundial de açúcar: comentário sobre séries estatísticas tradicionais (1820-1940)

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  • Heitor Pinto de Moura Filho

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Whatever the historiographic attitude adopted, there are certain precautions preliminary to the use of statistics, which cannot be abandoned. To extract readymade series from apparently trust-worthy secondary sources may turn out to be a dangerous procedure. This text compares series of world sugar production commonly found in bibliographies on the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It identifies generic difficulties in sugar statistics and exposes the discrepancies and convergences of 8 series, covering the period from 1820 to 1840. Reference is made to problems created by different measurement units, by the existence of various types of sugar and by series with heterogeneous geographical areas. A genealogy of values among the series becomes apparent. A few errors in published series are also identified.

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  • Heitor Pinto de Moura Filho, 2004. "Cento e vinte anos de produção mundial de açúcar: comentário sobre séries estatísticas tradicionais (1820-1940)," História Econômica & História de Empresas, ABPHE, vol. 7(1), pages 137-164, January-J.
    • Handle: RePEc:abp:hehehe:v:7:y:2004:i:1:p:137-164
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