Een monument voor het land. Overheidsstatistiek in België, 1795-1870
Bracke, Nele
Een monument voor het land. Overheidsstatistiek in België, 1795-1870 - Gent Academia Press 2008 - 1 electronic resource (467 p.)
Open Access
In A monument to the country. Official statistics in Belgium, 1795-1870, Nele Bracke unravels why and how the Belgian state and its predecessors organized and developed an official statistical apparatus in order to collect numerical information. The study captures the underlying objectives and structures, as well as the methods to compile statistics. Nele Bracke investigates the meaning and significance of government statistics in the 19th-century State and society. In Belgium, early social scientists established an internationally renowned ‘statistical system’ designed to collect information about the country, the people and the society. This ‘statistical system’ was built around the ‘Commission centrale de Statistique’ (statistical committee) and the production of demographic, economic and agricultural censuses. In the first part of the book, the author analyzes the institutional history of the ‘Commission centrale de Statistique’ and its predecessors. In the second part of the book, she studies the censuses.
Creative Commons
Dutch; Flemish
OAPEN_366390
10.26530/OAPEN_366390 doi
Belgium
Flemish
c 1700 to c 1800
c 1800 to c 1900
For emergent readers (adult)
European history
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Social & cultural history
belgian history belgische geschiedenis 19e eeuw overheidsstatistiek instituitional history government statistics 19th century institutionele geschiedenis
Een monument voor het land. Overheidsstatistiek in België, 1795-1870 - Gent Academia Press 2008 - 1 electronic resource (467 p.)
Open Access
In A monument to the country. Official statistics in Belgium, 1795-1870, Nele Bracke unravels why and how the Belgian state and its predecessors organized and developed an official statistical apparatus in order to collect numerical information. The study captures the underlying objectives and structures, as well as the methods to compile statistics. Nele Bracke investigates the meaning and significance of government statistics in the 19th-century State and society. In Belgium, early social scientists established an internationally renowned ‘statistical system’ designed to collect information about the country, the people and the society. This ‘statistical system’ was built around the ‘Commission centrale de Statistique’ (statistical committee) and the production of demographic, economic and agricultural censuses. In the first part of the book, the author analyzes the institutional history of the ‘Commission centrale de Statistique’ and its predecessors. In the second part of the book, she studies the censuses.
Creative Commons
Dutch; Flemish
OAPEN_366390
10.26530/OAPEN_366390 doi
Belgium
Flemish
c 1700 to c 1800
c 1800 to c 1900
For emergent readers (adult)
European history
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Social & cultural history
belgian history belgische geschiedenis 19e eeuw overheidsstatistiek instituitional history government statistics 19th century institutionele geschiedenis