Egeler, Roderich; Dinsenbacher, Natalie; Kleber, Birgit - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 3, pp. 389-405
Summary Population censuses have been conducted for thousands of years and they are one of the bases of any official … statistics. By giving a detailed overview of the structure of a country’s population at a specific point in time, they provide … one of the most important parameters for political action. In addition, in modern statistical systems, population censuses …