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Title: A Pre-Modern Middle-Eastern Population Brought to Light: Digitization of the 1848 and 1868 Egyptian Individual-Level Census Records

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: Our knowledge about pre-modern Middle Eastern societies has been limited by the lack of data. The 1848 and 1868 Egyptian individual-level census records provide two detailed snapshots of the Egyptian population in its early attempts to make the transition into a modernized society.Carried out during the reigns of Muhammad Ali (1805-1848) and Ismail (1863-1879) respectively, these censuses are perhaps the earliest in the Middle East to include information on all segments of society including females, children, and slaves, and on a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic variables. This paper describes the digitization project of a representative sample of the 1848 and 1868 censuses, and introduces an application of the data in the field of Egyptian economic history.

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Authors: Saleh, Mohamed

Conference Name: Population Association of America

Publisher Location: Washington, D.C.

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection

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