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Physicians and statisticians: two ways of creating demographic health statistics in Spain, 1841–1936

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1997

ESTEBAN RODRÍGUEZ-OCAÑA  and
JOSEP BERNABEU-MESTRE
ESTEBAN RODRÍGUEZ-OCAÑA
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and History of Science, University of Granada
JOSEP BERNABEU-MESTRE
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, University of Alacant
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Abstract

I. THE CREATION OF MODERN DEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICS

The existence of a specialized administrative organization depends on the political, economic, and social development of a country, and is indispensable for the availability of modern statistics. As more than one author has pointed out, quantitative assessments of its population reflect a government's capacity to rule. The first Spanish attempts to obtain such quantitative knowledge are found in the so-called Relaciones ordered by Philip II in the second half of the sixteenth century; they described both European and American territories of the Crown. These early attempts, however, lacked continuity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Continuity and Change , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , August 1997 , pp. 247 - 264
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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