This book analyses the international development of the census by comparing the history of census taking on all continents and in many countries. The timeframe is wide, from male censuses in the Bible to current censuses covering the whole population.
This book analyses the international development of the census by comparing the history of census taking on all continents and in many countries. The timeframe is wide, from male censuses in the Bible to current censuses covering the whole population.
Gunnar Thorvaldsen is Professor at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre of the University of Tromsø, which has transcribed significant parts of the censuses and collaborates internationally to make them available for research. He heads to the project to build a Historical Population Register for Norway. He has used censuses and church books for publications on migration, methodology and mortality.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction and Pre-Censuses 2. Revolutionary Census Taking 3. Numeric censuses during the Restoration Period from 1815 4. The Nominative Census Revived 5. International Cooperation and Comparison 6. Into the 20th century - ups and downs of census taking 7. Towards a Global Census? 8. Census technology 9 The Historical Census References
1. Introduction and Pre-Censuses 2. Revolutionary Census Taking 3. Numeric censuses during the Restoration Period from 1815 4. The Nominative Census Revived 5. International Cooperation and Comparison 6. Into the 20th century - ups and downs of census taking 7. Towards a Global Census? 8. Census technology 9 The Historical Census References
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