Population and housing census of the Netherlands, 28 February 1971

This study contains the Dutch population and housing census of Februari 28th 1971. The data are divided in nine different files, each relating to a different unit of observation. These units are: the municipality, the district, the neigbourhood, the address, the house, the household following the definitions of 1960 and 1947 (two different units of observation), the nuptiality (huwelijks vruchtbaarheid), and the individual. The first four units of observation contain fixed data on the municipalities and their subdivisions in districts, neighbourhoods and adresses. The other five units of observation contain the actual data collected in the door to door census, these data are collected and archived nationally. To research subdivisions in the Dutch population, one has to link together the files. The quality of the data is very good. A small portion of the Dutch population was counted administrative (2.3 %), for the most part, these people weren't at home during the census. Few of them actually banned the census, however this was only 0.15 % of the total population. These citizens were absorbed through the register of population and other administrative records.