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Dans les pas des recenseurs : une analyse critique des dimensions géographiques et familiales du recensement canadien de 1852
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Dans les pas des recenseurs : une analyse critique des dimensions géographiques et familiales du recensement canadien de 1852
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As the first Canadian nominal census of the Victorian era, the 1851/52 Census of Canada East and Canada West presents a unique opportunity to explore social behaviour in the mid-19th century. The authors' in-depth analysis of the 1852 Canadian census confronts previous negative assessments of this census by historians. Based on a random 20% sample, the authors' evaluation demonstrates that data emerging from the 1852 census manuscripts reflect a largely (but not entirely) systematic enumeration of the population. They found that relatively few census-takers used "ditto" marks or totals instead of individual tick marks, and few attributed more than one family status to each person. Members of nuclear families, parents of the head of household and domestic servants were classified in a uniform manner by different enumerators. However, they found that the absence of a third of the 1852 census manuscripts is a bigger challenge, but they argue that their sample is nevertheless representative of the population with respect to sex, age and marital status at the provincial level.
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Cahiers québécois de démographie
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Vol. 41
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no. 2
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299-339
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Automne 2012
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fr
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Dillon, Lisa, and Katrina Joubert. “Dans les pas des recenseurs : une analyse critique des dimensions géographiques et familiales du recensement canadien de 1852.” Cahiers québécois de démographie Vol. 41, no. 2 (Automne 2012): 299–339. https://www.erudit.org/revue/cqd/2012/v41/n2/1013494ar.pdf.
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