APPENDIX TABLE IS.7
Dates and nature of results on population structure,
households/families and vital statistics
Topic
Population
Population at census dates
Population by age, sex, and
marital status
Households and families
Households (heimili)
Total households
Introduction
1850
1850
1703
Households by size
1860,
1870,
1910,
1930,
1940
Households by composition
1930,
1940
1940
Households by profession of
household head
Families
Families by number of children
continued
–
Remarks
Earlier censuses were conducted in 1703, 15
VIII 1769, 1 II 1801, 2 II 1835, 2 XI 1840,
and 2 XI 1845.
See Hagstofa Íslands, 1997: 131–6 (Table
2.14).
Households were expressly recorded for the
first time in 1703. Later counts were in 1760,
1801, 1832, 1840 (continued below):
1850: number of households.
1855: number of households.
1860: number of households.
1870: number of households.
1880: number of households.
1890: number of households.
1901 number of households.
1910: households by size.
1920: number of households.
1930: households by size and composition.
1940: households by size and composition,
profession of household head.
Disaggregation: by region.
In detailed form first time in 1910. The
census of 1703 was exploited later using
modern methods. Earlier with grouped data
in 1860 and 1870.
1910: households by number of persons 1–
20+.
1920: households by number of persons 1–
10+.
1930: households by number of persons 1–
15+.
1940: households by number of persons 1–
10+.
IS.7 Dates and nature of results on population structure,
households/families, and vital statistics (continued)
APPENDIX TABLE
Topic
Population movement
Midyear 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
1850
1850
1850
1850
1850
1850
Remarks
See Hagstofa Íslands, 1997: 50ff. (Table
2.2.).