# Uitwerken van de volkstelling

In the Netherlands, a census was taken on 31 May 1947. The Central Bureau of Statistics in The Hague processes the incoming questionnaires. This includes the use of mechanical punching and sorting machines. SHOTS: - completed questionnaires; - ext. + int. CBS: in the cellars the incoming questionnaires are systematically stored in cupboards; an employee collects a bunch of them and rides them on a trolley to a room with civil servants; they convert the data on the forms into pencil codes on so-called scratch cards; the scratch cards are mechanically converted into punch cards; the punch cards are mechanically sorted with Hollerith machines; the results are automatically printed and studied by civil servants.

- Kind: Film
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producent)
- Archive: [Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/item/2051906/data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_676180)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.