TURKIYAT ARASTIRMALARI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN TURKOLOGY, sa.37, ss.163-179, 2015 (ESCI)
Censuses conducted by a state help managers in planning for the future as it contains many data. The most important purpose of the census in the Ottoman State has been to determine the number of the troops and the taxpayers. For this purpose, only the male population was counted in a certain period.