Demography from Scanty Evidence : : Central Africa in the Colonial Era / / ed. by Bruce Fetter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Aborampah, Osei-Mensah,; Beach, David N.,
• HerausgeberIn: Fetter, Bruce ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Maps, Figures, and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; CENTRAL AFRICA MAP --; 1 Demography in the Reconstruction of African Colonial History --; PART 1 SOURCES --; 2 Some Methodological Reflections --; 3 Bibliographic Aids for the Historical Demographer --; 4 The Limits of Colonial Statistics: A Lesson from Algeria --; 5 First Steps in the Demographic History of Zimbabwe: The Colonial Period from 1895 to 1922 --; 6 Factors Affecting Census Reliability in Colonial Zambia, 1900-1930 --; 7 Recollections of the Annual Population Count in Late Colonial Zambia --; 8 Demographic Data Resources for Colonial Malawi --; 9 A Demographic Approach to Colonial Burundi, from Administrative Documents, 1896-1960 --; 10 Catholic Missions, Mentalités, and Quantitative History in Burundi, ca. 1900-1962 --; PART 2 INNOVATIONS IN METHOD --; 11 Demographic Estimation from Deficient or Defective Data --; 12 Perspectives on Census Data for Migration Measurement --; 13 Maps as Sources in Demographic Studies of Africa's Past, with Particular Reference to Zambia --; 14 Applications of Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis to Colonial African Census Data --; 15 The Migration of Women in Colonial Central Africa: Some Notes Toward an Approach --; 16 Labor Migration and Urban Child Labor During the Colonial Period in Zambia --; 17 Social Factors in Child Mortality in a Sample of Urban Women --; 18 Social and Organizational Variables Affecting Central African Demography --; Comments --; PART 3 CASE STUDIES --; 19 Studying the Population of French Equatorial Africa --; 20 What is Known of the Demographic History of Zaire Since 1885? --; 21 Population and Worker Mortality in Western Zaire, ca. 1900-1935 --; 22 To Address a Common Problem --; The Contributors --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685851521; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685851521
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Bruce Fetter.

In essence a manual for reconstructing the demographic past of Central Africa, this is the first concerted attempt to recover the pre-1960 demography of an African region on the basis of colonial statistics.