Census in Denmark - Census Format

Census Format

Census sheets used in the towns were different from those used in rural areas. The urban lists had the following nine headings:

1. Persons of rank, civil servants, and the like with their wives and children who lived at home.
2. The clergy, teachers, and students with their wives and children living at home.
3. (a) Sailors and fishermen, including those away on voyages, plus their wives. (b) Their children living at home.
4. Industrialists and handicraft masters with their journeymen and apprentices and their wives and children living at home.
5. Other citizens and inhabitants not included in headings 1–4 with their wives and children living at home.
6. All unmarried persons of either sex divided into the age groups in the upper part of the scheme.
7. All servants and day laborers.
8. People from the town, belonging to 1, 2, and 4 to 7.
9. Paupers, the handicapped, and mentally deranged persons.