APPENDIX TABLE GR.7
Dates and nature of results on population structure,
households/families and vital statistics
Topic
Introduction
Population
Population at census dates
1821–
Population by age, sex, and marital status
1879,
1907–
Households and families
Households (ménages or oikogeneiai)
Total households
1861,
1870,
1879,
1907,
1920,
1940,
1951
Households by size
1920,
1951
Households by composition
1951
continued
Remarks
The first population census after the begin of
the Greek war of independence was held in
1821. The second followed in 1828. Until
1861 population censuses were held at short
intervals, partly annually. From 1861
onwards a census period of approximately
ten years was introduced. Special population
censuses were held to cover newly-gained
territories: in 1881 for Thessaly, Arta, and
Crete, in 1900 for Crete (under Greek
administration), in 1913 for the territories
acquired during the Balkan wars (Macedonia, Crete, Aegean Islands, and northern
Epirus), and in 1947 for the newly-acquired
Dodecanese islands. The census of 1928 was
induced by the Asia Minor refugee
catastrophe of 1922. Historical population
census data are given by NSSG, 1966: 12
(1839–1961), NSSG, 1980: 10 (1861–1971),
Chouliarakis, 1973: XVIIIff., and Statistical
Yearbook 1997 (1998), 41.
Not published in 1870; published in the form
of relative values in 1879 (1889 and 1896
not clear if published); extensively published
for the first time in 1907 for all nomoi.
Households (ménages, oikogeneiai) and
calculation of mean household size is available since 1861. There was no distinction
made for one-person households for the
whole period; institutional households distinguished in 1920; 1940 population census
not extensively published due to World War
II.
Disaggregation: by départements (nomoi),
provinces (eparchiai), and communes (demoi) in 1870, 1879 (1889 and 1896 vol. not
available), and 1920.
In 1907 no household data published; household head by sex in 1920; in 1928 no household data published either.
First time in 1920: households with 1–16
and more persons. In 1951 households with
1–20+ persons.
First time in 1951.
APPENDIX TABLE
GR.7 Dates and nature of results on population structure, households/families, and vital statistics (continued)
Topic
Households by profession of
household head
Families (oikogeneiai)
Families by number of children
Population movement
Mid-year population
Births
Live births
Stillbirths
Legitimate births
Illegitimate births
Deaths
Total deaths
Infants (under 1 year)
Marriages
Total marriages
Divorces and separations
Total divorces
Legal separations
Introduction
1920
1920
1920
Remarks
For the first time in 1920 for profession of
household head by economic sector.
First time in 1920.
Special investigation of families by number
of children born, surviving, and deceased for
the first time in 1920.
1925–40, Statistical Yearbook 1997 (1998), 42; histo1956– rical annual population figures calculated by
Chouliarakis from 1821–1971 (1973: XXf.).
1860–84, Publication of vital statistics started in 1860,
1921–40, but there is a gap from 1885–1919, when
1949– statistics were disorganized. Since 1949 the
figures have been regularly produced.
During the nineteenth century and still in the
first half of the twentieth century vital
statistics are underreported due to
underregistration.
1931–39, Mouvement naturel de la population de la
1949– Grèce.
1927–28, Mouvement naturel de la population de la
1936–38, Grèce.
1956–
1927–28, Mouvement naturel de la population de la
1936–38, Grèce.
1956–
1860–84, See comment on live births.
1921–40,
1949–
1927–28, Mouvement naturel de la population de la
1936–38, Grèce.
1956–
1860–84, See comment on live births.
1921–40,
1949–
1960–
–
Annuaire Statistique de la Justice 1990;
Mouvement naturel de la population de la
Grèce; Statistical Yearbook of Greece; Eurostat, Demographic Statistics.
Not available.