Karol Józef Krótki
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Karol Józef Krótki, FRSC (15 May 1922 – 6 July 2007) was a renowned Canadian Polish
Canadian demographer who, at various times, lived and worked in Poland
, the United Kingdom
, Sudan
, Pakistan
, Morocco
and Canada
. Professor Krotki was elected to the Royal Society of Canada
in 1979.
, Poland
. Following German and Soviet Union invasion of Poland in 1939 Krotki, still a teenager fled the country on foot. Eventually he enrolled in the British Army and took part in the battles of North Africa. Later he joined the Royal Air Force
in the United Kingdom
, where he distinguished himself for bravery.
Master of Arts in Economics with Statistics (1952), Cambridge University
PhD in Economics (1960) Princeton University
Dissertation, Estimating Vital Rates from Peculiar and Inadequate Age Distribution, supervised by Ansley J. Coale
, Sudan
, at that time part of the British Dominion, Department of Statistics
He worked on Sudan's first population census carried out between 1956–1958.
1960–1964 Karachi
, Pakistan
Research Adviser at the Institute of Economic Development in Karachi
1971–1972 Rabat
, Morocco
work in Centre de recherches et d’études démographiques
1964- 1968 - Statistics Canada, known at that time as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dr. Krotki was in charge of managing demographic research, both substantive and methodological, population estimates and forecasting as well as the preparation towards the 1971 census, its methodology and content determination. He spearheaded the 1961 census monograph program.
1968 - 1990 University of Alberta
, Edmonton
, Canada
, Department of Sociology,
He was instrumental in establishing a strong demography program and the Population Research Laboratory
at the
university. He trained many students, in class and as supervisor to their MA and PhD research.
In 1983 Dr. Krotki was awarded the title of University Professor and after his retirement remained active as a Professor Emeritus.
in 1971.
During his years in Africa Dr. Krotki kept personal memoirs and wrote a book about his experiences. In 1961 he tried to publish it in Poland, but the text was not approved for publication at that time.
Eventually in 1995 the book was published in Poland
under the title "W kraju białego nosorożca" (In the land of a white rhinoceros).
Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta, 1973.
Publisher: Hecht, Edmonton, Canada : Dept. of Sociology, the University of Alberta, 1977.
Ottawa : Statistics Canada, Census and Household Surveys Field, Survey Methods Division = Statistique Canada, Secteur du recensement et des enquêtes-ménages, Méthodes d'enquêtes recensement, 1980
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
Canadian demographer who, at various times, lived and worked in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Professor Krotki was elected to the Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada , may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada...
in 1979.
Early life
Karol Krotki was born in 1922 in CieszynCieszyn
Cieszyn is a border-town and the seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It has 36,109 inhabitants . Cieszyn lies on the Olza River, a tributary of the Oder river, opposite Český Těšín....
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. Following German and Soviet Union invasion of Poland in 1939 Krotki, still a teenager fled the country on foot. Eventually he enrolled in the British Army and took part in the battles of North Africa. Later he joined the Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, where he distinguished himself for bravery.
Education
Bachelor of Arts ( Honors) in Economics (1946–1948), Cambridge UniversityMaster of Arts in Economics with Statistics (1952), Cambridge University
PhD in Economics (1960) Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
Dissertation, Estimating Vital Rates from Peculiar and Inadequate Age Distribution, supervised by Ansley J. Coale
Ansley J. Coale
Ansley Johnson Coale , was one of America's foremost demographers. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, he earned his B.A. in 1939, his M.A. in 1941, and his Ph.D. in 1947, all at Princeton University...
Professional Activities
1949–1958 KhartoumKhartoum
Khartoum is the capital and largest city of Sudan and of Khartoum State. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia. The location where the two Niles meet is known as "al-Mogran"...
, Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
, at that time part of the British Dominion, Department of Statistics
He worked on Sudan's first population census carried out between 1956–1958.
1960–1964 Karachi
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
Research Adviser at the Institute of Economic Development in Karachi
1971–1972 Rabat
Rabat
Rabat , is the capital and third largest city of the Kingdom of Morocco with a population of approximately 650,000...
, Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
work in Centre de recherches et d’études démographiques
1964- 1968 - Statistics Canada, known at that time as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dr. Krotki was in charge of managing demographic research, both substantive and methodological, population estimates and forecasting as well as the preparation towards the 1971 census, its methodology and content determination. He spearheaded the 1961 census monograph program.
1968 - 1990 University of Alberta
University of Alberta
The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...
, Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, Department of Sociology,
He was instrumental in establishing a strong demography program and the Population Research Laboratory
Population Research Laboratory
Established in 1966, the Population Research Laboratory is a centre for social science research at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.With close to 120 employees, the PRL is the largest academic centre of its kind in Western Canada...
at the
university. He trained many students, in class and as supervisor to their MA and PhD research.
In 1983 Dr. Krotki was awarded the title of University Professor and after his retirement remained active as a Professor Emeritus.
Personal Interests
Dr. Karol Jozef Krotki was one of the founding members of the Polish Culture Society of EdmontonPolish Culture Society of Edmonton
- History :Established in 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta by a group of Polish emigrants, among them was a renowned professor of University of Alberta, demographer Dr.Karol Józef Krótki.- Mission :...
in 1971.
During his years in Africa Dr. Krotki kept personal memoirs and wrote a book about his experiences. In 1961 he tried to publish it in Poland, but the text was not approved for publication at that time.
Eventually in 1995 the book was published in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
under the title "W kraju białego nosorożca" (In the land of a white rhinoceros).
Legacy
The Karol J Krotki Population Research Graduate Scholarship is endowed by the Society of Edmonton Demographers (the Alberta Endowment Fund for Demographic Research) to support sociology doctoral students doing advanced original research that is likely to make a significant contribution to the broad field of population studies.Publications
- Karol Józef Krótki; First population census of Sudan 1955/56 : 21 facts about the Sudanese; Khartoum, 1958
- K M Barbour; Karol Józef Krótki, Review of The Population of Sudan Review of 21 Facts about the Sudanese, Africa, Oct., 1960, vol. 30, no. 4, p. 411
- Sultan S Hashmi; Masihur Pahman Khan; Karol Józef Krótki; The people of Karachi : data from a survey; Publisher: Karachi : Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, 1964.
- Karol Józef Krótki; R C Muirhead; Richard Platek; Evaluation programme of the 1966 census of Canada; Publisher: Ottawa : Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1967
- Karol Józef Krótki; H N Thakur; Estimates of population size and growth from the 1952-54 and 1961 censuses of the Kingdom of Nepal
Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta, 1973.
- Eli Samplin Marks; William Seltzer; Karol Józef Krótki; Population Council, Population growth estimation : a handbook of vital statistics measurement, New York : Population Council ; Bridgeport, Conn. : distributed for the Population Council by Key Book Service, ©1974
- "La population morocaine: reconstitution de l'évolution de 1950 à 1971," K.J. Krotki and R.P. Beaujot, Population 30(2): 335-367, March April 1975.
- Karol Józef Krótki; Bonnie Fox; The randomized response technique, the interview and the self administered questionaire : an empirical comparison of fertility of reports; Publisher: Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta, Dept. of Sociology, Population Research Laboratory, 1975
- Sultan S Hashmi; Karol Józef Krótki; Issues in demographic data collection in Pakistan...; Islamabad, Pakistan, Census Organisation, 1977
- Karol Józef Krotki; Jacqueline Hecht; An overview of fertility and KAP surveys in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1956 1972
Publisher: Hecht, Edmonton, Canada : Dept. of Sociology, the University of Alberta, 1977.
- Karol Józef Krótki; K Parveen; University of Alberta. Population Research Laboratory; Population size and growth in Pakistan based on early reports of 1972 census; Edmonton : Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta, 1977
- Karol Józef Krótki; Susan A McDaniel; Three estimates of illegal abortion in Alberta, Canada : survey, mail back questionnaire and randomi ed response technique; Publisher: University of Alberta, Population Research Laboratory, Dept. of Sociology, 1977
- Karol Józef Krótki; Statistics Canada. Census and Household Survey Methods Division, Response error of the 1976 census of population and housing,
Ottawa : Statistics Canada, Census and Household Surveys Field, Survey Methods Division = Statistique Canada, Secteur du recensement et des enquêtes-ménages, Méthodes d'enquêtes recensement, 1980
- Karol Józef Krótki; University of Alberta. Population Research Laboratory; Linguistic assimilation in Canada and Alberta by age and sex : an objective estimate through life table techniques; Toronto: Micromedia, 1981
- Karol Józef Krotki; Language loyalties among amerindians and Inuit; Publisher: Edmonton, Canda : University of Alberta, Dept. of Sociology, 1981
- Balakrishnan, T.R., K.V. Rao, E. Lapierre-Adamcyk and K.J. Krotki. 1987. "A hazard model analysis of the covariates of marriage dissolution in Canada." Demography, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 395-406.
- T. R. Balakrishnan, K. Vaninadha Rao, Karol J. Krotki and Evelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk (1988). Age at first birth and lifetime fertility. Journal of Biosocial Science, 20, pp 167-174 doi:10.1017/S0021932000017405
- Karol Józef Krótki; Dave Odynak; The emergence of multiethnicities in 1981 and 1986 : their sociocultural significance; Edmonton : Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta, 1990
- Balakrishnan, T.R., E. Lapierre-Adamcyk and K.J. Krotki. 1993. Family and Childbearing in Canada: A Demographic Analysis. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr.
- Karol Józef Krótki, W kraju białego nosorożca, Wydawnictwo FORMA, Kraków 1995, ISBN 83-902965-0-0
External links
- http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/sociology2/graduate_funding.cfm
- http://lib.unb.ca/Texts/CJRS/bin/get.cgi?directory=Spring97/krotki/&filename=Krotki.html
- http://www.canpopsoc.org/journal/2009/CSPv36n1-2Dedication.pdf%20 http://www.canpopsoc.org/journal/2009/CSPv36n1-2Dedication.pdf
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