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• Accountants in the British Census

Key sources for accounting historians are published reports on censuses of population and the surviving enumeration books on which they were based. The increasing availability of electronic versions of census enumeration books (CEB) for Canada, the UK, and the US offers opportunities for better understanding the history of occupations concerned with the performance of accounting functions. However, census reports and original census documents must be interpreted critically. A study reports on a study of accountants appearing in the transcribed version of the British CEBs for 1881. It is shown how the published census underreported the number of accountants in Britain and suggests that there are potential inconsistencies in the manner in which accountants were counted. While accounting h...

... than one occupation; and, whether apprentices, assistants, the unemployed, and the retired shoul...

• Accounting Historians Journal, The
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 2, December 2007