Three Centuries of Northern Population Censuses
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 books presentation of European census history and infrastructure is not strictly limited to northern Europe, although most of the Mosaic materials originated north of the forty-fifth parallel.
The template for modern census-taking was created by Adolphe Quetelet in Belgium in the 1830s, and his census standards were spread almost globally by the international statistical conferences. This book explores Icelandic residence patterns amongst the elderly; Siberian polygamy as indicated in the Polar Census; mens living arrangements in Northern Norway; Swedens pioneering register-based census in 1930; unique source materials on the Soviet family; and data on Ukrainian and Russian population groups in the most recent Ukrainian censuses. All of these contributions stress the books focus on Northern European census data.
This book was originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family.
Gunnar Thorvaldsen is Professor of History and Director of The Norwegian Historical Data Centre, at the University of Troms, 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.
Three Centuries of Northern Population Censuses
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Gunnar Thorvaldsen
First published 2018
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in The History of the Family, volume 21, issue 1 (March 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Three centuries of northern population censuses
Gunnar Thorvaldsen
The History of the Family, volume 21, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 14
Chapter 1
Residence patterns of the elderly in early eighteenth-century Iceland
lf Gararsdttir
The History of the Family, volume 21, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 520
Chapter 2
Masculine responsibility across generations: living arrangements in a Norwegian parish around 1900
Hilde L. Sommerseth and Gunnar Thorvaldsen
The History of the Family, volume 21, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 2137
Chapter 3
Mosaic: recovering surviving census records and reconstructing the familial history of Europe
Mikoaj Szotysek and Siegfried Gruber
The History of the Family, volume 21, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 3860
Chapter 4
Sweden in 1930 and the 1930 census
Per Axelsson and Maria J. Wisselgren
The History of the Family, volume 21, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 6186
Chapter 5
Polygamy among indigenous people of northern West Siberia in ethnographic and early census materials
Elena Glavatskaya
The History of the Family, volume 21, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 87100
Chapter 6
Primary sources on the history of the Soviet family in the twentieth century: an analytical review
Lyudmila Mazur and Oleg Gorbachev
The History of the Family, volume 21, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 101120
Chapter 7
Birthplaces, migration and identity in the 2001 census for Ukraine
Gunnar Thorvaldsen
The History of the Family, volume 21, issue 1 (March 2016), pp. 121131
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Notes on Contributors
Per Axelsson is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Sami Research (CeSam) and the Centre for Demographic and Aging Research (CEDAR), Ume University, Sweden. His research is concerned with indigenous demography, longitudinal studies of indigenous health, and the digitization of Swedish censuses.
lf Gararsdttir is Professor of Social History at the School of Education, University of Iceland, Reykjavk, Iceland. Her research interests include family history, demography, and the history of childhood.
Elena Glavatskaya is a Professor at the Department of History, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Her research interests include ethnic and religious minorities in Russia, their history and contemporary situation.
Oleg Gorbachev is a Professor at the Department of History, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. His research interests include migrations in 20th century Russia and family history in the early Soviet Union.
Siegfried Gruber is a Department Member at the Department of History, University of Graz, Austria. His work is concerned with historical demography and longitudinal research.
Lyudmila Mazur is a Professor at the Department of History, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Her research interests include early Soviet Union social history and demography with a special focus on family structure.
Hilde L. Sommerseth is a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Historical Data Centre, University of Troms, Norway, and at the Department of Social Science, Sogn of Fjordane University College, Sogndal, Norway. Her research is primarily concerned with family history, stretching from studies on infant mortality to research on household composition.
Mikoaj Szotysek is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany. His research interests include household, family and kinship systems, and the anthropology of the family in Eurasia.
