Year: 2009
Type: report
Abstract: Preliminary remarksThis paper is a condensed version of various reports on German states that were prepared for the Laboratory of Historical Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in 2008/09.The purpose of these overviews (in German) was to find out how exactly population was counted, where these counts were documented, and, whenever possible, to locate the original census lists.Future publications will provide inventories of the scattered census household listings that survive around Germany.The purpose of this paper is to provide a general overview of the evolution of the German census system in the 19 th century, to the extent that it is possible to do so.There are some smaller states for which further enquiries about sources are necessary, a task which is beyond the scope of this research project.But I am confident that new details will not seriously change the general conclusions presented here.
Author: Rolf Gehrmann
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W1559100884