Iran Civil Registration

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Civil Registration

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Coverage and Compliance

1871-1873: Mizra Hosein Khan Sepahsalar instigated reforms that led to census style data collection.

1930-1940: Full census attempted and abandoned after Anglo-Soviet Invasion

1956: First complete, national census.

Information Recorded in the Records

1871-1873:

• Names and ages of every man, woman, and child in their villages
• List of the dead and the newborn each year

1956-2016: Most of the data contains:

• district and province
• population size
• number of households
• mean household size
• approximate number of migrant tribe population

May include:

• names
• ages
• head of house
• relationship to head of house