Missing in the Census 1851-1911: The ‘lost’, ‘missing’, and ‘gaps’ in I-CeM and BBCE, with weights to adjust RSD populations

Abstract

WP 23 first outlines the various gaps in e-census records from BBCE and I-CeM and how they have arisen. It assesses sources for identifying archivally lost records and compares these with the BBCE and I-CeM databases at the level of RSDs for census years 1851-6, and 1881-1911. The paper develops weights to compensate for the identified gaps and provides downloads of weights to be used with I-CeM and/or BBCE.