Census in Austria-Hungary 1869

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The 1869 census in Austria-Hungary was the first modern census in Austria and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy .

After house and person counts had already been carried out several times before, a new census law was passed on March 29, 1869, which was intended to record the entire population permanently or temporarily present in one place with a uniform demographic, socio-structural and professional set of characteristics. This was preceded by several test counts. The first census to cover the entire Austro-Hungarian monarchy was held on December 31, 1869. Subsequently, counts took place every ten years, the reference date was December 31 of each of the years 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910. With the First World War and the end of the monarchy, this series of counting was ended.

literature

  • Wolfgang Göderle: Census and ethnicity: For the production of knowledge about social realities in the Habsburg Empire between 1848 and 1910 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2016