Vol. 7 · No. 2 · 2003
Censuses of Pastoral Nomads and some General Remarks about the Census of Nomadic Tribes of Iran in 1998Ebrahim Moussavi-Nejad
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A great uncertainty exists about the accuracy of statistics, particularly those concerning nomadic tribes who are difficult to reach by census-takers. But the increasing need for attention to be paid to these communities, specially after the Revolution, has necessitated the collection of accurate statistics about them. Therefore, the first stage of a plan for an independent census of nomadic tribes was implemented in 1985, and their first public census was conducted in 1987: a second public census on nomadic tribes was repeated in 1998, after an interval of eleven years. The present article tries to briefly review the data of these two censuses, while pointing to some of the shortcomings of the second stage of the nomadic tribes' census.