Az erdélyi települések népessége nemzetiség szerint 1930–1992 (1996)

FOREWORD

FOREWORD The Central Statistical Office has recently started, with financial assistance from the Priority Scientific Research Fund and from National Scientific Research Fund, a series of ethnic and minority studies including relevant data collection and dissemination, for which the circumstances were not given previously. As a result of these efforts, a number of volumes on the ethnic and religious composition of the population of the current territory of Hungary, as well as of the so-called historical (pre-1920) territory of Hungary are being published. The publications that contain the results of secondary data processing and research in historical data sets followed the administrative territorial breakdown at the time of the 1910 census, and thus presented the changes in the ethnic composition of each settlement (commune) through long time series. The tables contain the data of the Hungárián population censuses between 1880 and 1941, in somé instances alsó the data of the population censuses carried out in the successor states. The volumes already published in the series are íhe following: — Ethnic (mother tongue) composition of the population of settlements in Transylvania (1850—1941) — Distribution of the population in the localities of the Felvidék by nationality (mother tongue) (1880-1941) The volume on the ethnic (mother tongue) composition of the population of the SubCarpatian region (Ukraine) between 1880 and 1941 is currently with the editors, soon ready for publication. The volume on the ethnic composition of the Southern part of the historical territory of Hungary, with data on the population of the settlements that are in the present territory of Yugoslavia (Serbia) is expected to be published in 1997. The volume on the ethnic composition of Burgenland (Austria) by mother tongue will alsó appear in 1997. The originál editorial plan was to publish census data from 1880 onwards, all the way to the 1990 round of censuses. However, due to the lack of availability of information, data covering the post-Second World War period could not, until now, be compiled. To remedy this, the president of the Hungárián Central Statistical Office has initiated the transmission of such data from Slovakia and from Romania. The response of the president of the CSO of Romania was extremely helpful. We received the 1930, 1956, 1966, 1977 and 1992 Románián census data on ethnic composition by settlements, as well as the 1992 census data on population composition by mother tongue and 11