A népszámlálás útja a regisztrálástól a szociológiáig
The journey of the census: from registry to sociology

Summary/Abstract: The study demonstrates that censuses originally meant the enumeration and listing of inhabitants, and then, during the “era of cross-tabulations,” the emphasis gradually shifted to correlations. In the era of cross-tabulations, numerous background tables were created about smaller aggregates, which represent an untapped resource for social history. At the end of the 20th and the beginning of the current century, the database of censuses was transformed into person-level sociological databases by the Minnesota IPUMS project, and the Hungarian Central Statistical Office also made the data from 1970–2022 accessible.

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