Julie E. Backer

Julie Elisabeth Backer (31 August 1890 – 1977) was a Norwegian statistician who spent her career at Norway's Central Bureau of Statistics.

She was born in Kristiania as a daughter of architect Herman Major Backer (1856–1932) and Elisabeth Christiane née Boeck (1868–1958). After finishing her secondary education in 1909 she took the cand.oecon. degree in 1912. She worked a few years in the life insurance company Gjensidige before being employed in Statistics Norway in 1917. In 1938 she took the dr.philos. degree with the thesis Dødeligheten blandt lungetuberkuløse, on the mortality among lung tuberculosis victims.[1]

Her principal interests and responsibilities lay in health and population statistics. She became head of her division in 1936 and served in that post until her retirement in 1956. After her retirement she continued her research and carried on publishing.[2]

She was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and a World Health Organization expert panel on statistical classification of diseases.[1]

Notable works
  • (1961) Trend of Mortality and Causes of Death in Norway 1856-1955 (Dødeligheten og dens årsaker i Norge. 1856-1955)
  • (1965) Marriages, Births and Migrations in Norway 1856-1960 (Ekteskap, fødsler og vandringer i Norge 1856-1960)

References
  1. Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1973). "Backer, Julie Elisabeth". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 35. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  2. Aukrust, Odd (1978). Julie E. Backer, 1890-1977. International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale De Statistique 46(3), 325-325.
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