The Swedish censuses, from the first census year 1860 to the year 1945, were fundamentally different than censuses in other countries. In Sweden the censuses were not taken by census workers going out with a questionnaire and interviewing people in their homes. Instead the censuses were taken by vicars and parish priests who made extracts from the already existing church examination records (1860-1890) and parish books (1900-1945).
Parish book, 1900-1905
All areas in Sweden, except the city of Stockholm
____ Name of Estate
Column 1
____ Croft, apartment, department or institution etc. within the estate above
____ First name
____ Surname
____ Position in family for every person
____ Persons title, if other than described in column 2.
Column 2
____ Occupation (office, trade)
____ Ethnicity (mention if foreign ethnicity)
____ Disability (epilepsy, mentally ill, idiot, blind, deaf-mute
Column 3
____ Birth year
Column 4
____ Birth day
____ Birth month
Column 5
____ Birth place (parish in county or city
Column 6
____ Vaccinated for, or having had, smallpox
Column 7
____ Married (year, day and month)
Column 8
____ Widower, widow or divorced (year, day and month)
Column 9
____ Moved in or transferred from parish in county or city to another parish in county or city, or from a page in parish book over non-existence
Column 10
____ Moved in or transferred (year, day and month)
Column 11
____ Knowledge of Christian teachings
Column 12
____ Received Holy Communion within the Swedish church
Column 13
____ Attended church examination year
Column 14
Notes on
____ Communion obstacles
____ Marriage obstacles
____ Bans
____ Certificate about possibility to marriage
____ Letter of separation
____ Legalization of children
____ Exit from the Swedish church
____ Foreign faith if any
____ Foreign nationality if any
____ A parish in Sweden the mother belonged to when having children abroad
____ Other
____ Notes on military service
Column 16
____ Moved out or transferred (from parish in county or city to another parish in county or city, or from a page in parish book over non-existence)
Column 17
____ Transfer date (according to Column 16)
Column 18
____ Death (year, day and month)
Enumeration form for the 1900 census (All counties except the city of Stockholm)
Instructions regarding the taking of the 1900 census were given in a letter of the 21st September the same year. In accordance with the Statistics Sweden [Statistiska Centralbyrån] proposal on the 28th February the letter states the following:
That the census information for the entire country, except the city of Stockholm, should be provided, in accordance with the announcement of 4th November 1859, by vicars and parish priests in the form of extracts from the parish books of each parish.
That for parishes where the parish books is not ordered by place of dwelling but instead chronologically or alphabetically should, in addition to the extracts from the parish book, also extracts from the property register belonging to the parish book be provided if it is deemed necessary by Statistics Sweden.
Column 1
____ Household or consumption unit
____ Village (Village name to be written on a special row and underlined)
____ Place of residence (block or ward in city)
____ Name in full of every person
____ Position in family (h. = wife, s. = son, d. = daughter etc)
____ Title (if other than described in column 2)
____ Baptized/ Not baptized
Column 2
____ Occupation office, trade
____ Ethnicity (mention if foreign ethnicity)
____ Disability (epilepsy, mentally ill, idiot, blind, deaf-mute)
Column 5
____ Birth place (parish in a particular county or city)
Column 7 - 8
[] Unmarried men
[] Unmarried women
[] Married men
[] Married women
[] Widowers
[] Widows
[] Divorced men
[] Divorced women
Column 14
____ Faith (mention if foreign)
____ Exit from the Swedish church
____ Nationality (mention if foreign)
____ Absence
Enumeration form (ward list) for the 1900 census (City of Stockholm)
For the city of Stockholm, the information that should be provided by the citizens of Stockholm for the 1901 tax census should also contain those special details that are necessary for the 1900 census. The information should thereafter by city officials be extracted and provided as census information. The census should also include those, in the tax records remaining, people that are mentioned in the §10:7 of the decree of the 28th May 1897 regarding the tax census in the city of Stockholm.
Column 1
____ Household or consumption unit
Column 2
____ Block
____ Property number within the block.
____ Name (full) of every person;
____ Position in family (h. = wife, s. = son, d. = daughter etc)
Column 3
____ Occupation title, office, trade
Column 4 - 11
____ Tax census registered in the property
[] Unmarried men
[] Unmarried women
[] Married men
[] Married women
[] Widowers
[] Widows
[] Divorced men
[] Divorced women
Column 12 - 19
____ No tax census registered in the property
[] Unmarried men
[] Unmarried women
[] Married men
[] Married women
[] Widowers
[] Widows
[] Divorced men
[] Divorced women
Column 20
____ Birth year
Column 21
____ Birth place (parish in a particular county or city)
Column 22
____ Church registration place (parish in a particular county or city)
Column 23
____ Disability
____ Foreign nationality or faith (mention absence of any religious faith)
Column 24
____ Remarks about place of tax census registration, travellers etc.