The spatial demography of Portugal in the late nineteenth century : evidence from the 1864 and 1878 censuses

This thesis is concerned with the analysis and correction of the 1864 and 1878 Portuguese censuses in order to define spatial demographic patterns for the mainland of Portugal during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. It is intended The division of the country into six different regions - Littoral-North, Estremadura, North-Interior and South, Sorraia and Sado valleys, Evora and Algarve - based on the estimates of the several demographic variables, show clearly how mobile t Working the data at an even more detailed level of disaggregation - two parishes of the town of Viana do Castelo in the Province of Minho - shows how stable population methods can still be applied to small populations in order to formulate new