[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 18, Issue 65

Sat Jan 22 08:30:30 UTC 2005

zero 0000 said:
> For example he claims results
> of a British census in 1945 when everyone
> knows that the last census was in 1931.

Tony Sidaway replied:
> Well actually there was an extraordinary census in 1939, so the
> information for 1945 wasn't entirely useless.  Only somewhat useless,
> given the intervening war and the associated rapid social changes.

There were only two censuses, in 1922 and 1931.  There was no
census of the general population in 1939.  All figures for the overall
population published by the British after 1931 were adjustments to
the 1931 figures derived from counting of births, deaths and
migration.  One of the sources of dispute regarding the number
of Palestinian refugees in 1948 is an Israeli claim that the British
population figure for Arabs was too high by 6%, which the British
denied.

Zero.

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