1st Edition

Three Centuries of Northern Population Censuses

Edited By Gunnar Thorvaldsen Copyright 2018
158 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

Over the last few decades, researchers in fields such as history, the social sciences and medicine have had improved access to census materials in northern Europe, making an update on these infrastructures both possible and topical. This book’s presentation of European census history and infrastructure is not strictly limited to northern Europe, although most of the Mosaic materials originated... Read more

Introduction: Three centuries of northern population censuses Gunnar Thorvaldsen

1. Residence patterns of the elderly in early eighteenth-century Iceland Olof Gardarsdottir

2. Masculine responsibility across generations: living arrangements in a Norwegian parish around 1900 Hilde L. Sommerseth and Gunnar Thorvaldsen

3. Mosaic: recovering surviving census records and reconstructing the familial history of Europe Mikołaj Szołtysek and Siegfried Gruber

4. Sweden in 1930 and the 1930 census Per Axelsson and Maria J. Wisselgren

5. Polygamy among indigenous people of northern West Siberia in ethnographic and early census materials Elena Glavatskaya

6. Primary sources on the history of the Soviet family in the twentieth century: an analytical review Lyudmila Mazur and Oleg Gorbachev

7. Birthplaces, migration and identity in the 2001 census for Ukraine Gunnar Thorvaldsen

 

Biography

Gunnar Thorvaldsen is Professor of History and Director of The Norwegian Historical Data Centre, at the University of Tromsø, Norway. His main research interests are historical demography, the history of the census, and longitudinal population register methodology. He currently heads the effort to build a historical population register for Norway.