Censuses and Census Takers

A Global History

Gunnar Thorvaldsen (University of Tromsø, Norway)

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English

Routledge
05 July 2019

Development studies; History; History: theory & methods; General & world history; Social & cultural history

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

"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. There is a focus on the efforts and destinies of census takers and the development of methods used to collect information into the census questionnaires. The book highlights international cooperation in census taking, as well as how computerized access to census data facilitates genealogical studies and statistical research on both historical and contemporary societies. It deals with such questions as ""Why did the French and British gentry block efforts at census taking in the 18th century?""; ""What role did German censuses play during Holocaust?""; Why were the Soviet census directors executed as part of the Moscow processes?""; ""Why did US states sue the Census Bureau in the 1970s?""; ""How do wars and revolutions affect census taking?"". The text ends by discussing whether the days of the population census as we know it are numbered, since countries exceedingly construct censuses by combining information from population registers rather than with questionnaires."

By: Gunnar Thorvaldsen (University of Tromsø Norway)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367348939
ISBN 10: 0367348934
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 05 July 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.