HereisDr. KathrinLevitan, authorof a bookontheculturalhistoryofthecensus, speakingtoBBCWorldServiceprogram, TheForum.
文化に関する本の著者 国勢調査の歴史を語りながら BBC World Serviceの番組。 フォーラムの様子。
I thinktherewereprobablytwomostcommonreasons. Onewasinordertofigureoutwhocouldfightinwars, sobasicallymilitaryconscriptionandinordertofindoutwhocouldfightinwarsancientgovernmentsliketheRomanEmpirehadtofindouthowmanymenof a certainagetherewere.
The 1890 censusoftheUnitedStateswasthefirstinwhichsomekindofelectro-mechanicalprocesswhichusedtocountpeople… soinsteadofjustyouknow, armiesofclerkskindofreadingoffcensusschedulesandkindoftabulatingthesethingsbyhand, forthefirsttimeanindividualcensusrecordwouldbepunchedonto a card.