Spisy powszechne ludności jako źródło informacji o przemianach demograficznych i społecznych
Population Censuses in Poland as information source on demographic and social changes

Summary/Abstract: The census information for Poland's and other European countries' demographic and social changes analyses is discussed respecting two basic questions: character of the processes in the last decades (family changes, territorial, occupational and social mobility, change dynamics) and development of statistical sample surveys as well as improving population data coming from registers. The article discusses unique characteristics of census information as well as their cognitive value for identification of change and continuity process elements in Poland (in comparison with previous censuses), comparative analyses of changes in Poland and in other countries, estimation of social needs resulting from the changes as well as recognition of the social risk groups. The role of the information on demographic and social structures in multidimensional evaluation on "how the Polish society handles with the change", and what chances it has to be equal to the technical revolution and the globalisation with the simultaneous need to cut down the development lag were stressed in the article too.

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