Czechoslovak Population Census – 1950

The first census after 1945 was carried out on 1 March 1950. At the same time, listing of agricultural, industrial and trade establishments took place and therefore the action was called “1950 National Census”. This census was the last one, which was processed for the so-called present population and for a long time it was the last census, in which churchmanship was surveyed (the question about denomination was included again in the 1991 census). An important change, in comparison with the 1930 census, was a new definition of nationality, according to which nationality means affiliation with a nation, with the cultural and working community of which the enumerated person is inwardly connected and to which he professes.
The census was also the first one in the territory of the Czechoslovakia, which included in the entire territory a housing census; however, at that time the obtained data on population and housing were not successfully connected, yet.

Census results were gradually published as non-public and with a limited number of copies. They were printed in a low number of copies only in 1957 – 1958, namely in 4 volumes with a common name Population Census and Listing of Houses and Dwellings in the Czechoslovak Republic as at 1 March 1950. The 1950 census data were released for the public (after they had been declassified) only in 1962. Although the 1950 census was prepared under very complicated conditions and its imperfections are known, the results of it are valuable, namely because they captured all consequences of the war and post-war events as for the changes in number and structure of population, but most of all because they captured the resettlement of German and replacement of Hungarian population, re-emigration and moving of hundreds of thousands of persons, namely to the border area of Czech lands.