GEOG 142 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Historical Demography, Current Population Survey (Us), Census Block
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Week 4, ch 4 from population, concepts & issues 11th ed. Chapter 4: demographic data (pg 110 - 145) William of normandy (1086), twenty years after having conquered england, ordered an enumeration of all the landed wealth in the newly acquired territory in order to determine how much revenue the landowners owed the government. Domesday book the day of final judgment (the document was named this because it was the final proof of legal title to land). , domesday being the world in middle english for doomsday. The domesday book was not really what we think of today as a census, because it was an enumeration of hearths, or household heads and their wealth, rather than of people. In order to calculate the total population of england in 1086 from the domesday book, you would have to multiply the # of hearths by some estimate of household size.
