Sample characteristics: Sweden
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Census of Sweden 1880 |
| Statistical agency | Statistics Sweden |
| Population universe | All persons present in the parish book |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | December 31, 1880 |
| Field work period | December 31, 1880 |
| Questionnaire | In Sweden, the censuses were taken by vicars and parish priests who made extracts from the already existing parish books. The parish books were updated continuously by the vicar or parish priest. They kept track of persons, families and households, their birth, marriage, death, and recorded whenever a person moved within or between parishes. The priest also recorded a person's attendance to the church examinations, their knowledge in the Christian teachings, ability to read and write and many other things. The parish books were kept in all of Sweden except in the city of Stockholm where the censuses were based on the tax census. |
| Type of fieldwork | In Sweden, the censuses were taken by vicars and parish priests who made extracts from the already existing parish books. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Information on SweCens project available here. Additional information on historical Swedish censuses (in Swedish) available here. |
| Sample fraction | 1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 4624825 |
| Sample weights | Not applicable |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Parish |
| Unit definitions | |
| Households | Persons belonging to the same consumption unit |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Census of Sweden 1890 |
| Statistical agency | Statistics Sweden |
| Population universe | All persons present in the parish book and persons residing in institutions |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | December 31, 1890 |
| Field work period | December 31, 1890 |
| Questionnaire | In Sweden, the censuses were taken by vicars and parish priests who made extracts from the already existing parish books. The parish books were updated continuously by the vicar or parish priest. They kept track of persons, families and households, their birth, marriage, death, and recorded whenever a person moved within or between parishes. The priest also recorded a person's attendance to the church examinations, their knowledge in the Christian teachings, ability to read and write and many other things. The parish books were kept in all of Sweden except in the city of Stockholm where the censuses were based on the tax census. The directors or governing boards of institutions were responsible for compiling information on persons living in prisons, hospitals, asylumns, nursing homes, institutions for disabled persons, and other institutions. |
| Type of fieldwork | In Sweden, the censuses were taken by vicars and parish priests who made extracts from the already existing parish books. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Information on SweCens project available here. Additional information on historical Swedish censuses (in Swedish) available here. |
| Sample fraction | 1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 4843782 |
| Sample weights | Not applicable |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Parish |
| Unit definitions | |
| Households | Persons belonging to the same consumption unit |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Census of Sweden 1900 |
| Statistical agency | Statistics Sweden |
| Population universe | All persons present in the parish book and persons residing in institutions |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | December 31, 1900 |
| Field work period | December 31, 1900 |
| Questionnaire | In Sweden, the censuses were taken by vicars and parish priests who made extracts from the already existing parish books. The parish books were updated continuously by the vicar or parish priest. They kept track of persons, families and households, their birth, marriage, death, and recorded whenever a person moved within or between parishes. The priest also recorded a person's attendance to the church examinations, their knowledge in the Christian teachings, ability to read and write and many other things. The parish books were kept in all of Sweden except in the city of Stockholm where the censuses were based on the tax census. The directors or governing boards of institutions were responsible for compiling information on persons living in prisons, hospitals, asylumns, nursing homes, institutions for disabled persons, and other institutions. |
| Type of fieldwork | In Sweden, the censuses were taken by vicars and parish priests who made extracts from the already existing parish books. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Information on SweCens project available here. Additional information on historical Swedish censuses (in Swedish) available here. |
| Sample fraction | 1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 5200111 |
| Sample weights | Not applicable |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Parish |
| Unit definitions | |
| Households | Persons belonging to the same consumption unit |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Census of Sweden 1910 |
| Statistical agency | Statistics Sweden |
| Population universe | All persons present in the parish book |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | December 31, 1910 |
| Field work period | December 31, 1910 |
| Questionnaire | In Sweden, the censuses were taken by vicars and parish priests who made extracts from the already existing parish books. The parish books were updated continuously by the vicar or parish priest. They kept track of persons, families and households, their birth, marriage, death, and recorded whenever a person moved within or between parishes. The priest also recorded a person's attendance to the church examinations, their knowledge in the Christian teachings, ability to read and write and many other things. The parish books were kept in all of Sweden except in the city of Stockholm where the censuses were based on the tax census. |
| Type of fieldwork | In Sweden, the censuses were taken by vicars and parish priests who made extracts from the already existing parish books. |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Information on SweCens project available here. Additional information on historical Swedish censuses (in Swedish) available here. |
| Sample fraction | 1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 5586360 |
| Sample weights | Not applicable |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Parish |
| Unit definitions | |
| Households | Persons belonging to the same consumption unit |