Additional Index Numbers of Compensation Insurance Rate Levels

Five years ago Mr. Paul Dorweiler and the writer presented tables of Workmen's Compensation insurance rate level indexes in a paper before the Society.* Those tables covered the period from the beginning of relative standardization of rate-making in the earlier Workmen's Compensation states and from the first enactment of Workmen's Compensation laws in many other jurisdictions to January 1, 1934. They gave not only index numbers for each separate state or jurisdiction but also showed the general or average indexes for all jurisdictions. The present addition extends the tables to the date January 1, 1939.