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Where there are prehistoric monuments belonging to the Nuragas, the first inhabitants of the island; These monuments consist of superimposed basalt blocks without mortar and on whose walls were crudely engraved signs that have been very likely interpreted as notches that were used to keep track of cattle and game. -
They already used small clay tablets to compile data in tables on agricultural production and goods sold or exchanged through barter. -
Already analyzed the data of the population and the income of the country long before building the pyramids. Interesting documents were found in the ancient Egyptian monuments that demonstrate the wise organization and administration of this people; they kept track of population movements and continually took censuses. Such was their dedication to always keep a relationship of everything that they even had the goddess Safnkit, goddess of books and accounts. -
In we observe in one of the books of the Pentateuch, under the name of Numbers, the census carried out by Moses after leaving Egypt. It literally says: "Census of the tribes: On the first day of the second year after leaving Egypt, Yavpe spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of the meeting, saying: "Make a general census of the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, by families and by lineages, describing by head the names of all the men fit for the service of arms in Israel -
there were the Chinese censuses ordered by Emperor Tao around 2,200 BC.
Later, around the year 500 BC, censuses were carried out in Rome to find out the existing population at that time. The figure of the censor was erected, whose mission was to control the number of inhabitants and their distribution throughout the different territories. -
Alonso de Quintanilla was ordered in 1482 to recount the fires (hearths) in the provinces of Castile. -
After the Norman conquest of England in 1066, King William I, the Conqueror, drew up a cadastre that can be considered the first in Europe. -
In the Middle Ages, in the year 762, Charlemagne ordered the creation of a register of all his properties, as well as the assets of the church. -
From the mid-twentieth century begins what we can call modern statistics, one of the determining factors is the appearance and popularization of computers. The center of gravity of the statistical methodology begins to displace intensive computing techniques applied to large masses of data, and the statistical method begins to be considered as an iterative process of searching for the ideal model.