Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contributors
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The census, 1801–1891
- 2 The study of family structure
- 3 Sources of inaccuracy in the 1851 and 1861 censuses
- 4 Standard tabulation procedures for the census enumerators' books 1851–1891
- 5 Sampling in historical research
- 6 The use of information about occupation
- 7 The use of published census data in migration studies
- 8 Criminal statistics and their interpretation
- 9 The incidence of education in mid-century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contributors
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The census, 1801–1891
- 2 The study of family structure
- 3 Sources of inaccuracy in the 1851 and 1861 censuses
- 4 Standard tabulation procedures for the census enumerators' books 1851–1891
- 5 Sampling in historical research
- 6 The use of information about occupation
- 7 The use of published census data in migration studies
- 8 Criminal statistics and their interpretation
- 9 The incidence of education in mid-century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Nineteenth-Century Society , pp. 411 - 433Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1972