Ethnicity or Language in the Population Census in 1910-1930 Slovakia (Czechoslovakia): Objectivity and Subjectivity of the Ethnic Make-up of a European Country between the Two World Wars

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://ejournal44.com/journals_n/1523542193.pdf" target="_blank" >http://ejournal44.com/journals_n/1523542193.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13187/popul.2017.2.48" target="_blank" >10.13187/popul.2017.2.48</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ethnicity or Language in the Population Census in 1910-1930 Slovakia (Czechoslovakia): Objectivity and Subjectivity of the Ethnic Make-up of a European Country between the Two World Wars

Original language description

In Slovakia, the concept of ethnicity was historically tied to two fundamental population attributes – language and community membership. While the statistical practice of the second half of 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century favored language as the primary criterion for determing a person’s ethnicity, Czechoslovak statisticians assigned a larger role to a person’s self-reported membership in a community. The two characteristics of the ethnic composition of the country – the former objective, the latter subjective – were among the most contentious subjects of debate in the preparatory meetings of every census commission. This paper examines some of the logistical and methodological issues related to the issue of ethnicity and language that the census commissions in three censuses: 1919, 1921 and 1930 were confronted with, seeking to place them in a large historical and geographical context.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Population processes

ISSN

2500-1051

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

48-59

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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