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Statistical Sources for Social Research on Western Europe 1945–1995

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The history of official statistics as a task of the state did not start before the 18th century. Although it is often maintained that statistics originated some two thousand years ago, official statistics in the sense of a public service has a rather short history. Censuses already existed in ancient times, in the middle ages, and to a larger extent since the 17th century. There were tax registers, lists of persons with citizens’ rights and different other registers of persons obliged to pay different taxes and duties. But this material cannot be regarded as statistics in the modern sense of the word; instead these were administrative registers as they still exist today. They only form the basis for creating statistics.

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Rothenbacher, F. (1998). Introduction. In: Statistical Sources for Social Research on Western Europe 1945–1995. Europe in Comparison. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11494-9_1

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