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The accuracy and precision of birthplace reporting in the 1851–1911 censuses: Place as a component of identity in nineteenth-century England and Wales
Population, Space and Place ( IF 2.630 ) Pub Date : 2021-11-04 , DOI: 10.1002/psp.2537
Joseph Day 1
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If migration between 1851 and 1911 is to be analysed using individual-level census data, it must be proven that individuals' place of birth was reliably recorded. However, existing studies have primarily been concerned with establishing only the level of absolute error, rather than how such errors were introduced. Through assessing the determinants of inaccuracy in the 1851–1911 censuses, this article finds that while birthplaces were generally reported accurately, the errors which did exist were not only the fault of the individual in question, but also of the householder whose responsibility it was to fill in the census form, and of those charged with transcribing the original, handwritten schedules into a machine-readable format. By demonstrating that individuals' ability to identify their place of birth was a function of their age and the distance they migrated from their place of birth, rather than either their intelligence or familiarity with their place of birth per se, shows that individuals' ability to identify their birthplace accurately was a function of the relevance it held in their lives. Consequently, this article argues that individuals' ability to identify their place of birth reflected its role as a component of their identity, becoming less relevant the further from it they became, but increasingly relevant as they aged.

中文翻译:

1851-1911 年人口普查中出生地报告的准确性和精确性:19 世纪英格兰和威尔士作为身份组成部分的地方

如果要使用个人层面的人口普查数据分析 1851 年至 1911 年之间的迁移,则必须证明个人的出生地被可靠记录。然而,现有的研究主要关注的是只确定绝对误差的水平,而不是如何确定引入了此类错误。通过评估 1851 年至 1911 年人口普查中不准确的决定因素,本文发现虽然出生地的报告普遍准确,但确实存在的错误不仅是有关个人的过错,而且是户主的过错,其责任是填写人口普查表,以及负责将原始手写时间表转录成机器可读格式的人员。通过证明个人识别出生地的能力取决于他们的年龄和他们从出生地迁移的距离,而不是他们的智力或对出生地本身的熟悉程度,这表明个人识别出生地的能力准确识别他们的出生地是相关性的函数它在他们的生活中占有一席之地。因此,本文认为,个人识别出生地的能力反映了其作为其身份组成部分的作用,越远离出生地,相关性就越低,但随着年龄的增长,相关性越来越强。
更新日期:2021-11-04
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