The 1922 census of Palestine was the first
census
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carried out by the authorities of the
British Mandate of Palestine British Mandate of Palestine or Palestine Mandate most often refers to:
* Mandate for Palestine: a League of Nations mandate under which the British controlled an area which included Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan.
* Mandatory P ...
, on 23 October 1922.
The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The division into religious groups was 590,890
Muslims
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, 83,794
Jews
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, 73,024
Christians
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, 7,028
Druze
The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...
, 408
Sikhs
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, 265
Baháʼís, 156
Metawalis
Lebanese Shia Muslims ( ar, المسلمون الشيعة اللبنانيين), historically known as ''matāwila'' ( ar, متاولة, plural of ''mutawālin'' ebanese pronounced as ''metouali'' refers to Lebanese people who are adherents ...
, and 163
Samaritans
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.
Operation
Censuses carried out by the
Ottoman Empire
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, most recently in 1914, had been for the purpose of imposing taxation or locating men for military service. For this reason, the announcement of a census was unpopular and effort was made in advance to reassure the population.
[Barron, pp. 1–4.] This was believed to be successful except in the case of the
Bedouin
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s of the
Beersheva Subdistrict, who refused to cooperate.
[ Many census gatherers, supervised by 296 Revising Operators and Enumerators, visited each dwelling, with special arrangements made for persons having no fixed address.][ Where possible, houses were visited by a census taker of the same religion as the occupants.][
The uncooperative Bedouin of the Southern District were counted approximately using counts of households and tithe records, leading to an estimate of 72,898 persons for that sector.][
A number of villages in the northern border area were not enumerated as they were still under French control, despite being in Palestine according to the Franco-British boundary agreement (1920).][ 1931 census report, vol. 1, p. 17.] The census did not cover Transjordan at all.[
]
Publication
A summary of the census results was published in one volume:
: (58 pages)
It contains the population of each village divided by religion and sex, and summaries for each district and the whole country. There are also tables with population counts according to Christian denomination, age, marital status, and language.
See also
*1931 census of Palestine
The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate for Palestine. It was carried out on 18 November 1931 under the direction of Major E. Mills after the 1922 census of Palestine.
* Census of P ...
*Hope Simpson Enquiry
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References
External links
1922 Census of Palestine
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Censuses in Mandatory Palestine
Census of Palestine, 1922
Documents of Mandatory Palestine
Palestine
Palestine, Census of