The Census
Spis
dir. Henryk Dederko
Poland, 1978 - 12
Documentary film popularizing the role and importance of the National Census. It shows the importance of the census as a task of only reporting but, above all, of providing data for planning the future conditions of the nation. The anonymous masses of people illustrate the object and enormity of the undertaking that is the census, and are an indicator of state tasks in the coming years. Blended into the images of the street crowd, excerpts from the work of the Central Bureau of Statistics emphasize the general nature of the census, the methods as execution. Prominent statisticians, including Prof. Dr. Kazimierz Romaniuk, Associate Professor Jerzy Hozler, and Kazimierz Rusinek, M.D., acquaint viewers with the issues.
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