A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

FINANCE

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TABLE 72.-COMPARISONS OF PHILIPPINES AND UNITED STATES ON PERCENTAGES OF
TOTAL GOVERNMENTAL EXPENDITURES FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION IN VARIOUS YEARS
[Sources: Report on "Financial
Statistics of Public Education PHILIPPINES UNITED STATES
in the United States, 1910-1920"
Table 5, page 17, and "Table
71" Percentages of Total Governmental (Insular, Provincial,
and Municipal) Expenditures
for Current Expense] /

Year

Philippine
Islands

Median
state in
United
States

1910......
1913......
1915......
1918......
1920......
1923......

Per cent
14.1
11.9
23.4

Per cent
25.8
28.5
27.4..........

CONPAISO50 Or PEPCENTAGE OF
TOTAL GOVERNLIENT EXPL.NDITUDES
DEVOTED TO EDUCATION N THEO
PHILIPPINES AND UNITED STATE5
mIO-1925

Fig. 30
TABLE 73.-RELATIVE RATES OF INCREASE IN TOTAL EXPENDITURES FOR EDUCATION,
HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION, AND HEALTH, VARIOUS YEARS, 1913-1923
[Sources: Official reports of the Bureau of Audits, the Bureau of Education, the Bureau of
Public Works, duplications removed, and of Educational Finance Inquiry, Vol. VI,
Financial Status of Public Education]
PHILIPPINES

Amounts

Percentage of 1913 as base of 100

Year

Education hway___ alh dt- cotru-Highway
Education construction Health Education construc- Health
tion

1913.................
1918................
1919.................
1920.................
1921.................
1922.................
1923.................

P7,146,802
9,659,306
13,195,411
18,106,193
22,872,440
23,031,868
23,587,101

P6,949,596
10,604,178
13,653,603
11,399,052
11,685,965
12,362,507
12,654,283

P2,489,465
4,567,258
5,765,262
5,264,938
5,068,835
5,850,123
6,052,655

Per cent
100
135
185
253
320
322
330

Per cent
100
153
196
164
168
178
182

Per cent
100
183
232
211
204
235
243

UNITED STATES
(State and local expenditures)
1910-1920.......... I........... I............ 239 1 262.........
I ~ ~ II........