TABLES ILLUSTRATING MYERS' INDEX
TABLE 1
Terminal
Digits
Numbers at ages specified
Sum of ages
Sum of ages
10-19
1
30 39
40-49
50-59
10-89
20-89
20-29
2
b
1
60-69
6
f
70-79
7
80-89
8
h
c
d
e
1
2
9
5,794.142
10
4,144.526
1
7
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1. Let us assume that you have been given a table as shown above (Table 1), showing the population figures for each of the
terminal digits 0 to 9.
2. Sum for columns (1) to (8) to give you value for column 9. In other words - autofit= 5,794,442. To get value for
column 10. just deduct 'a' from 5,794,442, to give you 4,144,526.
3. Repeat same for all the other terminal digits
4. Having derived values for columns 9 and '10', you will now take the values to columns T and 7 of the second table to
compute the Myers Blended sum as shown below.
5. **It is important to note that, having to sum the values across the terminal digits (as demonstrated in Table 1), may be very
laborious. Hence, values for the first 2 columns in Table 2 are usually given. However, in a situation where you are given
values for table 1, then you can derive columns 1 and 2, for Table 2. from the information given
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