About the six major (available) censuses – a super-quick introduction

A census taker visits a resident in a caravan, Netherlands 1925. Gieleman Theunisz and his wife Tonia Huurman, Hemweg Amsterdam

The first nationwide census in Norway was conducted in 1801. Censuses carried out before this were only pure counts without personal data.

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