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Adams, John W. and Alice Bee Kaskoff. 'Estimates of Census Underenumeration Based on Genealogies.' Social Science History 15 no. 4 (1991): 527-542.

• Methods. Problems of under- and over-enumeration.
• Country: USA

• Project Muse Link to article

• Methods. Biases in data collection and reporting about women.

Anderson, Margo J. and Stephen E. Fienberg. "To Sample or Not to Sample? The 2000 Census Controversy." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30, no. 1 (Summer 1999): 1-36.

• Project Muse Link to article

• Methods. Census enumerators' books are useful as basic documents for analysis of social structure. Describes plans for sampling (2%) and creating a database from this census.
• Year: 1851
• Country: Great Britain

• Methods
• Year: 1911
• Country: Great Britain

• Methods:
• Year: 1851
• Country: Great Britain

Baskerville, Peter and Eric Sager. 'Finding the Work Force in the 1901 Census of Canada.' Histoire sociale-Social History 28 no.56 (1995):522-539.

• Biases in data collection, data on occupations, months worked, earnings, etc.
• Census year: 1901 (refs: 1881, 1891)
• Country: Canada (refs: USA, Great Britain)

Beaud, Jean-Pierre and Jean-Guy Prévost, "Immigration, Eugenics and Statistics: Measuring Racial Origins in Canada (1921-1941)," Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1996)" 1-24.

Beaud, Jean-Pierre and Jean-Guy Prévost, "Models for Recording Age in 1692-1851 Canada: The Political-Cognitive Functions of Census Statistics," Scientia Canadensis Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (1994).

Beaud, Jean--Pierre and Jean-Guy Prévost, "La Structuration de l'Appareil Statistique Canadien, 1912-21," Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 74, No. 3 (1993): 395-413.

Bellavance, Claude, Jocelyn Morneau et France Normand. «Les "équipements" au recensement de 1851», S. Courville, J.-C. Robert et N. Séguin (dir.), Le pays laurentien au XIXe siècle. Québec, Montréal et Trois-Rivières: Université Laval, Université du Québec à Montréal et Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1992: 245-277.

Berkner, Lutz K. 'The Use and Misuse of Census Data for the Historical Analysis of Family Structure.' Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 4 (Spring 1975): 721-738.

• Discusses some limitations of census data in analyzing family structure
• Census years: various
• Countries: various, including USA, Great Britain

Bloomfield, Elizabeth. 'Using the 1871 Census Manuscript Industrial Schedules: A Machine-Readable Source for Social Historians.' Histoire sociale-Social History 19 no. 38 (November 1986): 427-441.

• Methods. Discusses database based on manuscript schedules of industrial establishments. Project update, future research directions.
• Note: lists enumeration categories (8 items).
• Census years: 1871
• Country: Canada (Ontario communities)

Bouchard, Gérard.  "The Content of Occupational Titles:  What Can Be Learned from a Population Register?"  Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 31, No. 2 (Spring 1998): 75-86.

Bouchard, Gérard. 'Current Issues and New Prospects for Computerized Record Linkage in the Province of Québec.' Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 25 no. 2 (Spring 1992): 67-73.

• Methods. SOREP linkage family-reconstitution system. BALSAC register plan to cover nineteenth & twentieth century Quebec marriage records.
• Census years: 1608-1765; 19^th & 20^th-century marriage records.
• Country; Canada (Quebec)

• Methods. Data linkage, Saguenay project .
• Census years:1842-1971 (parish registers)
• Country: Canada (Quebec: Saguenay)

Brookes, Alan A. 'Doing the Best I Can: The Taking of the 1861 New Brunswick Census.' Histoire sociale-Social History 9 no. 17 (1976): 70-91.

• Bias in census enumeration and compilation.
• Census year: 1861
• Country: Canada (New Brunswick)

Carter, Susan B. and Richard Sutch. "Fixing the Facts, Editing of the 1880 United States Census of Occupations: With Implications for Long-Term Labor-Force Trends and the Sociology of Official Statistics." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 29 (1996): 5-24.

Charbonneau, Hubert.  "Tricentenaire du premier recensement canadien." Population.  21 (1966):  1211-1215.

Charbonneau, Hubert et Jacques Légaré.  "La population du Canada aux recensements de 1666 et 1667."  Population.  22, No. 6 (novembre-décembre 1967): 1031-1054.

Charbonneau, Hubert et Jacques Légaré.  Répertoire des actes de baptême, mariage, sépulture et des recensements du Québec ancien. (Programme de recherche en démographie historique).  Montréal, Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal. Tranche XVIIe siècle: vol. 1 à 7, 1980, xxvi - 4094 p. Tranche 1700-1729: vol. 8 à 17, 1981 et 1982, xvi - 5938 p. Tranche 1730-1749: vol. 18 à 30, 1983 à 1985, xvi - 8332 p. Tranche 1750-1765: vol. 31 à 45, 1986 à 1988, xvi - 10904 p. Recensements, documents divers et addendum 1700-1765: vol. 46 et 47, 1990, xiv - 1182 p. Tranche XVIIe siècle: vol. 1 à 7, deuxième édition revue  et augmentée, 1991, xvi - 4230 p.

Charbonneau, Hubert and Jacques Légaré. "The Population of Canada in the Censuses of 1666 and 1667."  French Canadian and Acadian Genealogical Review.  1, No. 2 (Summer 1968): 115-126.

Charbonneau, Hubert, Yolande Lavoie et Jacques Légaré.  "Le recensement nominatif du Canada en 1681."  Histoire sociale/Social History.  No. 7 (avril 1971): 77-98.

Charbonneau, Hubert, Yolande Lavoie et Jacques Légaré. "Etude des caractéristiques nominatives dans l'état civil et les recensements canadiens du XVIIe siècle:  prélude à l'utilisation des ordinateurs pour le jumelage des données." Annales de démographie historique.  (1972): 269-295.

Condran, Gretchen A. and Jeff Seaman. 'Linkage of the 1880-81 Philadelphia Death register to the 1880 manuscript census: A comparison of hand- and machine-record linkage techniques.' Historical Methods 14 no. 2 (Spring 1981): 73-84.

• Methods. Data linkage.
• Census year: 1880
• Country: USA

Courville, Serge. 'Villages and Agriculture in the Seigneuries of Lower Canada: Conditions of a Comprehensive Study of Rural Quebec in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.' in Donald H. Akenson, ed. Canadian Papers in Rural History 5. Gananoque: Langdale Press, 1986:121-149.

• Methods. Problems in comparing census data over time due to changing census boundaries.
• Census years: 1831-1851
• Country: Canada (Quebec)

• Methods:
• Census years:
• Country: Canada

• Methods.
• Census years: 1861
• Country: Canada

• Methods.
• Census years: 1871
• Country: Canada (Quebec: Montreal)

• Methods
• Census years:
• Country: Canada (pre-Confederation)

• Methods
• Census years
• Country: Canada (Quebec)

• census planning, enumeration procedures, compilation procedures, double counting, de facto vs de jure, political conflict, state formation, Foucault, social studies of science
• Census years: 1842, 1848, 1850 (Canada West) 1844 (Canada East); 1852, 1861 (Canada East and West), 1871 (Dominion of Canada)
• Country: Canada

Darroch, Gordon. 'A Study of Census Manuscript Data for Central Ontario, 1861-1871: Reflections on a Project and on Historical Archives.' Histoire sociale-Social History 21 no.42 (November 1988): 304-311.

• Methods. Records linkage of large samples. Discusses two projects which sample and analyze characteristics of individuals and their households.
• Census years:1861,1871
• Country: Canada (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia).

• Methods. Bias in classification of occupation
• Census years: various
• Countries: Britain, USA

• Methods. International census microdata integration
• Census years: 1850-1880
• Country: Canada, USA

• Methods. International census microdata integration
• Census years: 1870-1901
• Country: Canada, USA

Drake, Michael. Population and Society in Norway 1735-1865, Cambridge 1969. ["Chapter 1: Problems of the population historian (pp 1-6 on the censuses 1801-1865)," can be viewed here.]

Ellis, M, M. Reibel, and R. Wright. "Comparative metropolitan area analysis: Matching the 1980 and 1990 Census Public Use Microdata Samples for metropolitan areas." Urban Geography 20: (1) (1999): 75-92.

Emery, George. Facts of life: The social construction of vital statistics, Ontario 1869-1952. London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.

Ferrie, Joseph P. "A New Sample of Males Linked from the Public-Use-Microdata-Sample of the 1850 US Federal Census of Population to the 1860 US Federal Census Manuscript Schedules." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 29, (1996): 141-156.

Folbre, Nancy and Marjorie Abel. 'Women's Work and Women's Households: Gender Bias in the US Census.' Social Research 56 no. 39 (Autumn 1989): 545-569.

• Methods. Bias in source.
• Census years: 1860-1950
• Country: USA

• Methods. Biases in agricultural census, comparability of information over time.
• Census years: 1852-1891
• Country: Canada (Quebec)

Gaffield, Chad.  "Linearity, Nonlinearity, and the Competing Constructions of Social Hierarchy in Early Twentieth-Century Canada:  The Question of Language in 1901."  Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 33, No. 4 (Fall 2000): 255-263.

Gaffield, Chad. 'Machines and Minds: Historians and the Emerging Collaboration.' Histoire sociale-Social History 21 no.42 (November 1988): 312-317.

• Methods. Computerization for historians.

• Methods. Record linkage/family reconstitution. Calls for collaboration in historical demographic research.

• Methods. Replicates instructions and census enumeration headings (in English only) for two Canadian censuses. Discussed some problems in interpretation of definitions and in quality of reporting.
• Census years: 1851
• Country: Canada (Ontario, Quebec)

Gardner, Todd. "Creation of the Public Use Census Files for 1850, 1880, and 1920: Software Development." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 28, (1995): 59-62.

Gardner, Todd, Matthew Sobek and Steven Ruggles. 1999. "IPUMS Data Extraction System." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 32, No. 3 (Summer, 1999): 119-124.

Garrett, Eilidh M. 'Satanic Mills, Pleasant Lands: Spatial Variation in Women's Work, Fertility and Infant Mortality as viewed from the 1911 Census.' Historical Research 67 (No.163 (June 1994): 156-177.

Garrett, Eilidh M. 'The Dawning of a New Era? Women's Work in England and Wales at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.' Histoire sociale-Social History 28 no. 56 (1995): 421-440.

• Methods. Definition and conceptualization of women's work.
• Census years: 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921.
• Country: Great Britain

• Methods:
• Census year: 1911
• Country: Great Britain (England & Wales)

Goeken, Ronald, Marjorie Bryer, and Cassandra Lucas. "Making Sense of Census Responses: Coding Complex Variables in the 1920 PUMS." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 32: (3) (1999): 134-138.

Goeken, Ron and Matthew Mulcahy. "Geographic Coding." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 28, (1995): 74-76.

Goyer, D. S. The handbook of national population censuses. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Graff, Harvey J. 'What the 1861 Census can tell us about Literacy: A Reply.' Historie sociale-Social History 8 no.15-16 (1975): 337-349.

• Methods. Use of census as a source for measuring literacy.
• Census years: 1861
• Country: Canada

• Methods. Literacy and other census variables.
• Reasons why the census is a good tool for measuring population characteristics such as literacy.
• Country: Canada (Quebec)

Greer, Allan. 'Misinterpreting Historical Literacy--A Reply.' Histoire sociale-Social History 12 no.23-24 (Nov.1979): 456-460.

• Methods. Literacy.
• Country: Canada

Gutmann, Myron P. and Douglas Ewbank. 1999. "The 1910 Black and Hispanic Oversamples." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 32, No. 3 (Summer 1999): 156-158.

Gutmann, Myron P., W. Parker Frisbie and K. Stephen Blanchard.  "A New Look at the Hispanic Population of the United States in 1910." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 32, No. 1 (Winter 1999): 5-19.

Hacker, J. David, Steven Ruggles, Andrea R. Foroughi, Brad D. Jarvis and Walter L. Sargent. "Public Use Microdata Samples of the 1860 and 1870 U.S. Censuses of Population." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 32: (3) (1999): 125-133.

Hakim, Catherine. ' Census Reports as Documentary Evidence: The Census Commentaries 1801-1951.' Sociological Review 28 no.3 (1980): 551-572.

• Methods. Use of commentaries on the results of each census to interpret changing definitions, such as family and household, occupation and economic activity.
• Census years: 1801-1951
• Country: Great Britain

• Methods. Occupational classification and workforce characteristics.
• Census years: 1891-1991
• Country: Great Britain

Hardy, A. "'Death is the cure of all disease': using the GRO cause of death statistics for 1837-1920," Social History of Medicine, 7 (1994): 472-92.

Hautaniemi, Susan L., Douglas L. Anderton, and Alan Swedlunk.  "Methods and Validity of a Panel Study Using Record Linkage:  Matching Death Records to a Geographic Census Sample in Two Massachusetts towns, 1850-1912."  Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.  33, No. 1 (Winter 2000): 16-29.

Higgs, E. A clearer sense of the census : the Victorian censuses and historical research. London: 1996.

Higgs, E. Counting heads and jobs: science as an occupation in the Victorian census." History of Science, (1985): xxiii, 335-49.

Higgs, E. "A cuckoo in the nest?: The origins of civil registration and state medical statistics in England and Wales," Continuity and Change, 11 (1996): 115-34.

Higgs, E. "Diseases, febrile poisons, and statistics: the census as a medical survey." Social History of Medicine, Vol. 4 (1991): 465-78.

Higgs, E. "The linguistic construction of social and medical categories in the work of the English General Register Office, 1837-1950." in Simon Szreter, Arunachalam Dharmalingam and Hania Sholkamy (eds.) The qualitative dimension of quantitative demography. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Higgs, E. Making sense of the census. London, 1989: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, Public Record Office Handbooks No. 23.

Higgs, Edward. 'Occupational Censuses and the Agricultural Workforce in Victorian England and Wales.' The Economic History Review 28 no.4 (Nov 1995): 700- 716

• Methods. Occupational classification and workforce data, discussion of census purposes.
• Census years: 1851-1871
• Country: Great Britain

Hershberg, Theodore and Robert Dockhorn. 'Occupational Classification.' Historical Methods Newsletter 9 nos. 2 & 3 (March/June 1976): 59-98.

• Methods. Discusses occupational classification in relation to understanding individual life experiences, and in understanding the economy in terms of occupational groups.
• Census years: 1850-1890.
• Country: Canada, USA

• Methods. Differing concepts of household in Nigeria.
• Country: Nigeria

• Methods. Changes in census tracts between census years.
• Country: USA

• Methods.
• Country: Canada

• Methods. Biases in enumeration and tabulation of some industrial activity
• Census Years: 1871, 1881, 1891
• Country: Canada

• Introduction to a volume devoted to the census.
• NOTE: Appendix A is a bibliography of select Canadian and Provincial Microdata Bases and some sample publications which use them.
• Census years: various
• Country: various

Kallgren, Daniel and David Beck Ryden. "Data Consistency Checking." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.  28, (1995): 66-69.

Katz, Michael B. 'Occupational Classification in History.' The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 3 no.1 (Summer 1972): 63-88.

• Methods. Occupational classification.

King, Miriam. 'All in the Family? The Incompatibility and Reconciliation of Family Demography and Family History.' Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 23 no. 1 (Winter 1990): 32-40

• Methods. Individual-level analysis versus household-level analysis; different operational definitions of 'the family.'

• Methods. Accuracy and comprehensiveness of nineteenth century manuscript censuses.
• Census years: 1850-1880
• Country: USA

Magnuson, Diana L. "Population Schedule Content." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 28, (1995): 11-26.

Magnuson, Diana L. and Miriam L. King. "Enumeration Procedures." Historical Methods 28, (1995): 27-32.

Magnuson, Diana L. and Miriam L. King. 'Comparability of the Public Use Microdata Samples: Enumeration Procedures.' Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 28 no. 1 (1995): 27-32.

• Methods. Comparability of different censuses, with reference to selection and training of enumerators.
• Census years: 1850-1990
• Country: USA

Marr, William L. 'Tenant vs. Owner Occupied Farms in York County, Ontario, 1871.' Donald H. Akenson, ed. Canadian Papers in Rural History 4. Gananoque: Langdale Press, 1985: 50-71.

• Methods. Linkage of agricultural and personal census, census definitions, and data interpretation problems.
• Census years: 1871
• Country: Canada (Ontario: York Co.)

• Methods. Use of census to study literacy.
• Census years: 1861, 1871
• Country: Canada (Ontario)

• Methods. Problems in agricultural census with measurement of land areas and production units, and in definition of farm.
• Census years: 1851-2
• Country: Canada

• Methods. Linkage of personal and agricultural census and problems of occupational definition.
• Census years: 1860, 1880.
• Country: USA

Mills, Dennis and C Pearce. People and Places in the Victorian Census. A review and bibliography of publications based substantially on the manuscript census enumerators' books, 1841-1911. (Cheltenham, 1989) (Historical Geography Research Group, No. 23).

Moen, Jon R. 'The Unemployment and Retirement of Older Men: Further Evidence from the 1900 and 1910 Censuses.' Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 27 no.1 (1994): 40-46.

• Methods. Changing definition of employment.
• Census years: 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910
• Country: USA

Prévost, Jean-Guy. "Controversy and Demarcation in Early-Twentieth-Century Demography: The Rise and Decline of Walker's Theory of Immigration and the Birth Rate," Social Science History, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer 1998): 131-155.

Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. and Markus Cerman. 'The Bohemian Census of 1651 and the Position of Inmates.' Histoire Sociale-Social History 28 No.56 (Nov. 1995): 333-346.

• Methods: Examination of household composition; inmates.
• Census years: 1651
• Country: Bohemia (Austria)

Ornstein, Michael D. 'Discrete Multivariate Analysis: An Example from the 1871 Canadian Census.' Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 16 (3) (Summer 1983): 101-108.

• Methods. Impact of assorted variables on household structure measures of households. Discusses statistical methods available to carry out powerful analyses of multivariate contingency tables, using example of a 4-way cross-tabulation of urbanization by province by occupation of head of household by household type.
• Census years:1871
• Country: Canada

• Methods. Data linkage (note date of article).

Reid, Richard. 'The 1870 United States Census and Black Underenumeration: A Test Case from North Carolina.' Historie sociale-Social History 28 no. 56 (Nov.1995): 487-499.

• Methods. Bias in enumeration applicable to certain subgroups, including African Americans, the poor, the young and itinerant.
• Census years: 1870
• Country: USA

Rosenwaike, Ira, Mark E. Hill, Samuel H. Preston and Irma T. Elo.  "Linking Death Certificates to Early Census Records:  The African American Matched Records Sample."  Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 31, No. 2 (Spring 1998): 65-74.

Ruggles, Steven and Russell R. Menard. 'A Public Use Sample of the 1880 U.S. Census of Population.' Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 23 no.3 (1990): 123-158.

• Methods. Census tables did not tabulate all variables, and few were cross-tabulated.
• Census years: 1880
• Country: USA

Ruggles, Steven, Matthew Sobek and Todd Gardner. "Disseminating Historical Census Data on the World Wide Web." IASSIST Quarterly 20, (1996): 4-18.

Ruggles, Steven and Russell R. Menard. "The Minnesota Historical Census Projects." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 28, (1995): 6-10.

Ruggles, Steven, J. David Hacker and Matthew Sobek, "Overview of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 28, (1995): 33-39.

Ruggles, Steven. "Sample Designs and Sampling Errors in the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 28, (1995): 40-46.

Ruggles, Steven. "Family Interrelationships." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 28, (1995): 52-58.

Ruggles, Steven. "Historical Demography from the Census: Applications of the American Census Microdata Files." In David Reher and Roger Schofield, eds., Old and New Methods in Historical Demography (Oxford University Press, 1993), 383-393.

Ruggles, Steven. "The U.S. Public Use Microdata Files as a Source for the Study of Long-term Social Change." IASSIST Quarterly 15, (1991): 20-27.

Ruggles, Steven. "Comparability of the Public Use Files of the U.S. Census of Population, 1880-1980." Social Science History 15, (1991): 123-158.

Ruggles, Steven. "Integration of the Public Use Files of the U.S. Census of Population, 1880-1980." American Statistical Association Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section (American Statistical Association) (1991): 365-370.

Sager, Eric.  "The Canadian Families Project and the 1901 Census." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.  33, No. 4 (Fall 2000): 179-184.

Schürer, Kevin. "The historical researcher and codes: master and slave or slave and master," in E. Mawdsely, N. Morgan, L. Richmond and R. Trainor (eds.), Historians, computers and data. Applications in research and teaching. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990, pp. 74-82.

Sharples, John B. and Ray M. Shortridge. 'Biased Underenumeration in Census Manuscripts.' Journal of Urban History 1 (1975): 409-39.

• Methods. Discuses undercounting & distorted reporting for disadvantaged groups, persons in urban areas or living in structures not considered 'residences;' other biases.
• Census years: Nineteenth and twentieth century
• Country: USA

• Methods. Biases in definition of household applied to Amerindians.
• Census years: 1900, 1910
• Country: USA

• JSTOR link
• Methods. Definition of family and household
• Census years: various
• Country: USA

• Methods: Sampling strategy, stratification, linkage.
• Census years: 1880, 1900.
• Country: USA

• Methods. Occupational and workforce definition, linkage; comments on household/family and other data.
• Census years: 1836-1911
• Country: France

• Methods. Variables related to social class available in different PUMS; linkage of PUMS from different years.
• Census years: 1910-1980
• Country: USA

Sobek, Matthew. "Class Analysis and the U.S. Census Public Use Samples." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 24, (1991): 171-181.

Sobek, Matthew. "Occupation and Income Scores." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 28, (1995): 47-51.

Sobek, Matthew and Lisa Dillon. "Occupational Coding." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 28, (1995): 70-73.

Sobek, Matthew and Steven Ruggles. "The IPUMS Project: An Update." Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (1999).

Steckel, Richard H. 'The Quality of Census Data for Historical Inquiry: A Research Agenda.' Social Science History 15 no. 4 (1991): 579-599.

• Methods. Under-enumeration and other errors, linkage.

Sweeny, Robert C. H. 'History & Computing in the 90s: Part I: The Past in the Present: Epistemological challenges of computer-assisted teaching; Part II: Methodological reflections on computer-assisted teaching.' Canadian Historical Association Conference (May 31, 1998.)

• Methods. Discusses biases of computerized data-bases derived from routinely-generated sources.
• Census years: n/a
• Country: n/a

Szreter, Simon.  Fertility, class and gender in Britain 1860-1940. Cambridge U. Press 1996. Part II ‘The professional model of social classes: an intellectual history’, pp.67-282:
Ch.2. ‘Social classification of occupations and the GRO in the nineteenth century
Ch.3. ‘Social classification and nineteenth-century naturalistic social science
Ch.4. ‘The emergence of a social explanation of class inequalities among environmentalists, 1901-1904’
Ch.5. ‘The emergence of the professional model as the official system of social classification, 1905-1928’

Szreter, Simon. 'The First Scientific Social Structure of Modern Britain, 1875-1883', in L. Bonfield, R.M. Smith & K. Wrightson, (eds), The World We Have Gained. Essays presented to Peter Laslett on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.  Oxford 1986, pp.337-54

Szreter, Simon.  The General Register Office of England and Wales and the Public Health movement 1837-1914, a comparative perspective. Guest Editor of special issue of Social History of Medicine 4,3 (1991), 263 pp.

Szreter, Simon. 'The Genesis of the Registrar-General's Social Classification of Occupations', British Journal of Sociology Vol. 35, 4 (December 1984):.522-46

Szreter, Simon. "The G.R.O. and the historians." Social History of Medicine Vol. 4, No. 3 (December 1991):  400-13.

Szreter, Simon. 'The G.R.O. and the public health movement in Britain, 1837-1914." Social History of Medicine Vol. 4, No. 3 (December 1991): 465-94.

Szreter, Simon. 'The historical origins of the Anglo-Saxon model of social classes' in M. Kajitani,(ed), Sociology and Ideas. Gakubunsha, Tokyo 1989 (Japanese language publication).

Szreter, Simon. 'The official representation of social classes in Britain, United States and France: the professional model and "les cadres" ' Comparative Studies in Society and History Vol. 35, No. 2 (April 1993): 285-317

Thorvaldsen, G. "Historical Databases in Scandinavia." The History of the Family. An International Quarterly Vol. 3, No. 3, (1998): 371-383.

Townsend, Sean, Cressida Chappell and Oscar Struijvé. Digitising History A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents, The History Data Service, The Data Archive, University of Essex, 1999.

Trudel, Marcel.  La Population du Canada en 1666: Recensement Reconstitué [The population of Canada in 1666: reconstituted census].  Sillery, Que.: Septentrion, 1995.

Trudel, Marcel.  La Population du Canada en 1663 [The population of Canada in 1663]. Histoire de la Nouvelle France, vol. 1.  Montreal: Fides, 1973.

Wayne, Michael. 'The Black Population of Canada West on the Eve of the American Civil War: A Reassessment Based on the Manuscript Census of 1861.' Histoire sociale-Social History 28 no.56 (Nov 1995): 465-481.

• Methods. Under-enumeration in relation to geographical distribution of minorities.
• Census years: 1861
• Country: Canada (Ontario)

Winchester, Ian. 'What Every Historian Needs to Know About Record Linkage for the Microcomputer Era.' Historical Methods:  A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 25 no. 4 (Fall 1992): 149-165.

• Methods. Surveys 20 yrs of records linkage developments, up to 1992.

• Inaccuracies in the 1881 census re: the enumeration of fishermen in the Isle of Man.
• Census years: 1881
• Country: England (Isle of Man)