Anders Nicolai Kiær, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian civil servant
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Place of Birth: Drammen, Buskerud, Norway
About Anders Nicolai Kiær
- Anders Nicolai Kiær (Drammen, 15 September 1838 – Oslo, 16 April 1919) was a Norwegian statistician who first proposed that a representative sample rather than a complete enumerating survey could and should be used to collect information about a population.He was born in Drammen as the son of ship-owner Niels Andersen Kiær (1802–1887), and brother of physician and historian Frantz Casper Kiær.
- He graduated as cand.jur.
- in 1860, and was hired as head of the statistics department in the Ministry of the Interior in 1868.
- In 1877 he was appointed director of the newly appointed office Statistics Norway, staying in this position until 1913.
- Before 1882 he functioned as a co-director together with Jakob Mohn.Anders Nicolai Kiær was a nephew of Hans Andersen Kiær and first cousin of businessmen Hans Theodor and Anders F.
- Kiær.
- The latter founded the company And.
- H.
- Kiær & Co.
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