The Global Politics of Census Taking

This book examines in detail the state of the art on census taking to spark a more vivid debate on what some may see as a rather technical - and hence uncontroversial - field of inquiry.

Walter Bartl is Senior Lecturer of Sociology (Privatdozent) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 41, Sociology of Population. Christian Suter is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 55, Social Indicators. Alberto Veira-Ramos is Professor of Demography and Population Theory at the Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain, Treasurer of International Sociological Association's Research Committee 41, Sociology of Population, and Vice President of the Research Network on Economic Sociology of the European Sociological Association.

The Global Politics of Census Taking in the 2020 Census Round: An introduction I. The Politics of Ethnoracial Categories 1. The Politics of a Datascape Transformed: Ethnoracial statistics in Brazil in regional comparative perspective 2. Census, Politics and the Construction of Identities in India 3. Education Censuses and Recognition: The Politics of Collecting and Using Data on Indigenous Students in Latin America II. The Politics of Institutional Autonomy 4. Population Census - Large Scale Project of a Public Statistics in Transition 5. Population Censuses in Crisis: United States, Brazil, and Ecuador in comparative perspective 6. The Latin American Observatory of Population Censuses: Increasing statistical literacy through an academia-civil society network 7. The Politics of Population Census, Socio-Economic Planning and Crisis of Underdevelopment in Nigeria 8. Censuses in Ukraine: not trusted and not needed? III. The Politics of Socio-Technical and Methodological Innovations 9. Establishing a Register-Based Census in Spain: Challenges and implications 10. Towards a Register-based Census in Germany: Objectives, requirements and challenges 11. Techno-political Transformation and Adaptability in Ghanaian Census History 12. Adoption of Smartphones for Data-Collection during the Fourth General Population and Housing Census of Cameroon: Motivations, opportunities and challenges. Conclusions and Desiderata for Further Research