The Polish censuses of 1921 and 1931 as a source for studying the number, ethno-confessional structure, and employment of industrial entrepreneurs in interwar Lviv

The author of the article analyses the censuses of 1921 and 1931 as a source for studying the business community of Lviv in the interwar period. He shows that census materials allow to establish the number of industrial entrepreneurs, the structure of their employment and ethno-confessional affiliation. In addition, these materials help to trace the quantitative changes of this social stratum, which occurred during the researched period. More advanced methodological principles of the 1931 census help to shed light on the stratification of Lviv entrepreneurs engaged in industry, depending on the size of the enterprises they owned, and to compare the relationships between different groups of entrepreneurs in the city’s largest ethno-confessional communities