Indicators of economic structure and mobility in the population censuses

Abstract

This article deals with population censuses as a source of information on development of population from the 19th until the 21st century. It discusses the methodology and classification of census based labour and mobility statistics, and focuses on reflection of their ability to maintain the original methodology, or vice versa to flexibly capture changes of dynamically changing society and its identity from the 19th century onwards.

Keywords

• historical data
• historical population census
• statistics
• spatial mobility
• labour geography