TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bracke, Nele
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_366390
ID  - OAPEN ID: 366390
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 808385158
KW  - belgian history
KW  - belgische geschiedenis
KW  - 19e eeuw
KW  - overheidsstatistiek
KW  - instituitional history
KW  - government statistics
KW  - 19th century
KW  - institutionele geschiedenis
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/c0b15649-7102-40d3-ab64-9e13bacc7343/366390.pdf
LA  - Dutch; Flemish
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34694
PB  - Academia Press
PP  - Gent
PY  - 2008
SN  - 9789038211664
TI  - Een monument voor het land. Overheidsstatistiek in België, 1795-1870null
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