[[A re-examination of Raffles's statistics on the population of Java in the early nineteenth century]]

The author analyzes the accuracy of the population data published by Sir Thomas Raffles concerning early nineteenth-century Java, Indonesia. Specific topics considered include "a. errors in computation, b. distribution of household size by sub-district, c. distribution of sex-ratio by sub-district, d. variation of age-structure by sub-district, [and] e. problems of Chinese population. Special attention was given to the consistency of the definition of categories and the distribution patterns of the reported figures." (SUMMARY IN ENG)