Adolph Jensen

Adolph Ludvig Otto Jensen (15 July 1866 – 24 May 1948) was an economist and statistician of international standing, and from 1913 to 1936 the head of the Statistics Department of the Danish Ministry of Finance.

Career Jensen studied Politics at Århus University, 1885–1892, under Harald Westergaard. "Report on the Representative Method in Statistics", Bulletin de l'Institut International de Statistique 22 (1925), 359–380 "Purposive Selection", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 91:4 (1928), 541–547. "Horoscope of the Population of Denmark", Bulletin de l'Institut International de Statistique, 25 (1931), 41–49. "Migration Statistics of Denmark, Norway and Sweden", in International Migrations, Volume II: Interpretations, ed. Walter F. Willcox, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1931. Befolkningsspørgsmaalet i Danmark, 1939. Tallenes Tale, 1941.