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oapen-20.500.12657-346942022-04-26T12:22:52Z Een monument voor het land. Overheidsstatistiek in België, 1795-1870 Bracke, Nele belgian history belgische geschiedenis 19e eeuw overheidsstatistiek instituitional history government statistics 19th century institutionele geschiedenis bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Continental Europe::1DDB Belgium bic Book Industry Communication::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic & Scandinavian languages::2ACF Flemish bic Book Industry Communication::3 Time periods qualifiers::3J Modern period, c 1500 onwards::3JF c 1700 to c 1800 bic Book Industry Communication::3 Time periods qualifiers::3J Modern period, c 1500 onwards::3JH c 1800 to c 1900 bic Book Industry Communication::5 Interest age & special interest qualifiers::5A Interest age / level::5AX For emergent readers (adult) bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLL Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history 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. 2011-01-18 00:00:00 2020-04-01T15:23:19Z 2020-04-01T15:23:19Z 2008 book 366390 OCN: 808385158 9789038211664 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34694 dut Historische Economie en Ecologie application/pdf n/a 366390.pdf http://www.academiapress.be/een-monument-voor-het-land-overheidsstatistiek-in-belgi-1795-1870.html Academia Press 10.26530/OAPEN_366390 10.26530/OAPEN_366390 76cb5309-2a30-44e7-bc8c-7892cd1fa38c 9789038211664 467 Gent open access
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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.
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