Sunday, May 27, 2007

Guinea 1972 census

The census questionanire (in French) is downloadable from the IHSN Central Survey Catalogue website.

For the reliability of the census result, see footnote 2 (p.28) in Claude Riviere, Guinea: The Mobilization of a People (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977). It says, "This census cannot be taken seriously because it implies an annual [population] growth rate of 5.7 per cent, which is scientifically impossible..."

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