Abstract: By use of local gazetteers，Fu-I Quan Shu ( The Complete Books of Taxes and Corvee Labor) ，and the
Grand Secretariat archives，this paper clarifies the sources of Sichuan population figures in provincial
gazetteer with three editions，and reveals that household plays an important role in the system of
demographic statistics． The study also interprets different terminologies of household and provides a
classification．

摘要：       利用府州县志、 《赋役全书》、人丁题本以及民数谷数奏折，本文分析了清代四川三部省志所载人口数字的来龙去脉，揭示了清代四川人口统计制度以 “户”为核心的特点，并对文本中 “户”的不同术语作了解释和分类。