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Comparative analysis of population age-sex distribution from sample and complete enumeration: 1970 and 1980 census data.

"This paper will attempt to analyze the degree of distortion introduced by sampling, if any, on the age and sex distribution of the population based on the information taken [in the 1970 census] from the sample households. Specifically, the 1970 age and sex distribution of the Philippine population based on the 5-percent sample households will be compared with that obtained from the information supplied by all households, i.e., the actual age and sex distribution of the Philippines....Findings...suggest a failure of the estimation procedures used in past censuses to correct errors attributable to sampling. In particular, the type of sampling error highlighted in this paper is the distortion introduced by sampling in age-sex distribution."

Age Distribution↗
PubMed1994

[The indigenous population in Latin American censuses].

"On reviewing the information about the indigenous population in the [Latin American] census data, clear discrepancies can be found. The main problem lies in the various definitions of indigenous population....The greatest difficulty arises from the multiple dimensionality of socio-cultural elements.... Existing estimates on indigenous population for the whole region largely vary and, in most cases, seem to be determined by strong emotions or, at least, based on highly subjective criteria. In spite of the strong criticism about the estimates taken from the population censuses, this source is generally one of the few with a real base." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

Censuses↗
PubMed1994

Utilisation of computers for 1991 census data--the issues and the status.

"This article focuses on the various possible advantages and the issues involved in the use of microcomputers in census data processing. While highlighting the advantages, the present limitations and the factors to be viewed for caution are also...described. Finally, the 1991 [Indian] Census publication and data dissemination programme...[is] given."

Asia↗
PubMed1988

Decree No. 87-57 relating to the execution of the general population and habitat census of 1987, 24 February 1987.

This Decree contains rules on the execution of the 1987 population and habitat census of Algeria. Under the census, all buildings and all persons present on national territory, except for persons with diplomatic or consular immunity are to be counted. All national education personnel, secondary students, students in administration, and public administrative personnel are to help with the census and are subject to penalties if they fail to respond to requests to help.

Africa↗
PubMed1988

Decree Mo. 88-90/PCMS/MP setting the date, the length, and the methods of the general population census, 10 March 1988.

This Decree provides that a general population census is to be undertaken from 20 May to 3 June 1988 throughout the Niger. Under the Decree, all persons, whether visitors or permanent residents, are required to furnish accurate answers to questions on the census questionnaire and census agents are required to maintain the confidentiality of information collected.

Africa↗
PubMed1996

[The colonial state and demographic knowledge in French West Africa, 1904-1960].

"Our lack of knowledge on the production of population estimates in France's colonial empire is in sharp contrast to the efforts of British authorities after 1940. To understand this ¿omission', we have to assess the numerous oppositions existing within the French colonial state.... After the first memoranda of 1904 and 1909, colonial census-taking activities were inexorably merged with everyday administrative tasks: taxation, justice, policing, etc. This shift clearly influenced the form and function of demographic knowledge in French West Africa (AOF).... We conclude with a mixed assessment of attempts to amass demographic knowledge and especially of the influence such knowledge actually had on decision-making." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND SPA)

Africa↗
PubMed1996

[Rumblings, resistances, rebellions: the implementation of censuses in colonial India (eighteenth to twentieth centuries)].

"The author examines how the population of colonial India reacted to enumeration practices developed by the British for fiscal and demographic purposes. Three types of reactions predominated during this period: rumblings, resistance--either spontaneous (primarily among the Santhal tribes) or politically organized, sparked by the nationalist movement of the 1920s and 1930s--and violent revolts, especially among the tribal Bhil in western India. It is interesting to relate such reactions, which often intermingled, to the building of a modern colonial state." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND SPA)

Asia↗
PubMed1996

[The creation and changing definitions of demographic knowledge: the case of mestizos in the indigenous communities of the Valle Bajo of Cochabamba, Bolivia].

"In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Spanish officials and members of the Catholic church created a series of race-based caste terms designed to identify and categorize the peoples of mixed ancestry. The Spanish American caste system relied on the assumed ability of a census-taker or priest to define the blood lines of an individual based on skin color and physical characteristics. However, the demographic knowledge created from the caste system was imprecise, and changed over time.... There were also long-term shifts in the meaning of terms and the definitions of status caused by socioeconomic changes. An example is the rapid rate of apparent mestizoization in the...indigenous communities of the Valle Bajo of Cochabamba, Bolivia. The rapid increase in the number of mestizos was related to changing definitions of the status and identity of indigenous peoples, and was not strictly caused by racial mixture." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND SPA)

Americas↗