Abstract
Summary Special problems arise in carrying out censuses in areas with illiterate populations. Some of these problems, as relating to Palestine Arabs, have been discussed in the reports on the survey of five Arab villages conducted in 1944 (see especially General Monthly Bulletin of Current Statistics, Government of Palestine, August 1945). But that survey dealt with a settled Arab population. The difficulties are much greater when a nomadic population is involved. In the present study the author outlines the difficulties met in enumerating the nomadic bedouins of Beersheba and the steps taken to overcome those difficulties.
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