Source: National Bureau of Economic Research  

Release: NBER Macrohistory Database  

Units:  Millions of Francs, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly

Telegraph Is About 10% Of The Total Postal And Telegraph Receipts. Telephone Receipts Are Excluded. Data For 1899-1933 Were Computed By Adding "Postes" And "Telegraphes". Figures Are Published For Two Years, The Last Year Given Was Taken Except Where It Was An Obvious Misprint. The Figure For March 1914 Was Misprinted In Vol. 77 (1915) So The Figure Was Taken From Vol. 75 (1914). Data Beginning In August 1914 Are For Non-Invaded Departments Only. Postal Rates Were Raised On July 17, 1926. Only Quarterly Data Are Available For April-June 1934. Source: Ministere Des Finances, Bulletin De Statistique Ed De Legislation Comparee, 1878, P. 365, And Successive Monthly Issues

This NBER data series m15012 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 15 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter15.html.

NBER Indicator: m15012