The quality of demographic data in 1804 comparing Paraíba do Norte (Brazil), Angola and Goa

Maria João Guardado Moreira; Maria Luís Rocha Pinto

doi:10.57759/aham2015.36784

The quality of demographic data in 1804 comparing Paraíba do Norte (Brazil), Angola and Goa

Authors

Maria João Guardado Moreira Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, CEPESE, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1719-4131
Maria Luís Rocha Pinto Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Políticas e do Território, Unidade de Investigação GOVCOPP, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6248-4395

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57759/aham2015.36784

Keywords:

Portuguese empire population, Sources quality, Goa, Angola, Paraíba do Norte, Demography

Abstract

The study of the Portuguese empire population has a vast corpus of statistical data since middle eighteenth century. However, these sources reveal a great diversity in contents, due to the data organization and different social realities. This circumstance presupposes the need to proceed to a very careful analysis of sources quality, before identifying and rebuild the main demographic indicators of the colonial population. It is our goal to proceed in an exploratory manner, and to do an internal critique analysis of the sources, and analyze always as possible the quality of data by testedmethods, in 1804 charts of Goa, Angola and Paraíba do Norte (Brazil).

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Published

2024-10-08

How to Cite

Moreira, M. J. G., & Pinto, M. L. R. (2024). The quality of demographic data in 1804 comparing Paraíba do Norte (Brazil), Angola and Goa. Anais De História De Além-Mar, 16, 255–280. https://doi.org/10.57759/aham2015.36784