Een monument voor het land : overheidsstatistiek in België, 1795-1870 / Nele Bracke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bracke, Nele, author.

Series:

Historische economie en ecologie.

Historische Economie en Ecologie

Language:

Dutch

Subjects (All):

Belgium. Commission centrale de statistique--History.

Belgium.

Belgium--Census--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 467 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Gent Academia Press 2008

Gent : Academia Press, 2008

Language Note:

Dutch

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In A monument to the country. Official statistics in Belgium, 1795-1870, Nele Bracke unravels why and how the Belgian state and its predecessors organized and developed an official statistical apparatus in order to collect numerical information. The study captures the underlying objectives and structures, as well as the methods to compile statistics. Nele Bracke investigates the meaning and significance of government statistics in the 19th-century State and society. In Belgium, early social scientists established an internationally renowned ‘statistical system’ designed to collect information about the country, the people and the society. This ‘statistical system’ was built around the ‘Commission centrale de Statistique’ (statistical committee) and the production of demographic, economic and agricultural censuses. In the first part of the book, the author analyses the institutional history of the ‘Commission centrale de Statistique’ and its predecessors. In the second part of the book, she studies the censuses.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Other Format:

Print version:

OCLC:

794697816

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_366390

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access