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Title: Norway: From Colonial to Computerized Censuses
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2012
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Abstract: The censuses in Norway start their history in the 1660s, when the country was part of the Danish Kingdom. After these male censuses were repeated in 1701 full count censuses until 1855 were statistical only, with the exception of the nominative and complete count census in 1801 which covered the whole Kingdom of Denmark, including Iceland, Greenland and Norway. From 1866 population censuses were taken regularly, usually every ten years. The censuses of 1801, 1866, 1900 and 1910 are available for research and statistical use through the Internet, as is also the case for half of the census of 1876. In cooperation with the Minnesota Population Center these censuses were made part of the North Atlantic Population Project (cf nappdata.org). From 1960 anonymous census samples are available from Statistics Norway, while little has been scanned or transcribed from the censuses 1920 to 1950 due to the 100 year confidentiality rule. The last census was conducted in 1990 using sampling methods. In 2001 and 2011 censuses were produced by running computer programs combining variables from the Central Population Register and a number of other databases. The above-mentioned datasets have been used in several research projects, both contemporary and historical. In this article the focus is on historical household structure and migration studies. The Central Bureau of Statistics has a demographic research group, which has worked on such themes as e.g. fertility and cohabitation. The data file combining at the level of the individual the censuses from 1960, 1970 and 1980 is one of their key resources as is the Central Population Register starting in 1964, covering almost the entire population of Norway. A Historical Population Register is being built, presently for the period 1801 to 1815.
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Authors: Thorvaldsen, Gunnar; Solli, Arne
Periodical (Full): Revista de Demografía Histórica
Issue: XXX
Volume: I
Pages: 107-136
Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS
Topics: Population Data Science
Countries: United States