Counting the Population. The Multiplier Method in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Population & Societies › Num. 409, Février 2005
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Most countries count their populations by census.INSEE conducted the second round of the new French census in January 2005. But this was not always the case. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an indirect enumeration technique, called the "multiplier", was preferred. Jean-Marc Rohrbasser explains how the method works and cites examples of its use, from France to China.
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Counting the Population. The Multiplier Method in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The first French census was conducted in 1801. The idea of counting the population from house to house, recording the list of members of each family, had been around for a long time. However, the authorities feared adverse reactions from the population, who were wary of censuses conducted for tax or military purposes. Consequently, the idea emerged in the eighteenth century of conducting partial, localized censuses and then extrapolating the total population of the kingdom by using the "multiplier" method. For a monarch of the Ancien Régime, t...
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