Alfred Legoyt

When Legoyt became director of SGF he took over the responsibility of organising the census from the bureau of statistics of the Ministry of the Interior and placed it under the stewardship of the SGF.^[4] As the Census Commissioner, of the forthcoming quinquennial census of 1856 Legoyt instructed his officials to use the households as the basis for the enumeration^[5] and to confine to the recording the occupation of the head of the family. It differed significantly from the 1851 Census in which the profession of all enumerated persons, including family dependents were recorded.^[7] In the words of Legoyt,

... include in each profession not only the head of the family, but also every person directly or indirectly supported by his profession, that is to say, his family, his workers, his various agents, and even his servants.

Legoyt held the position of director of SGF until the fall of the Second Empire in 1870.^[2]

He also served as the first permanent secretary of Société de Statistique de Paris from its creation in 1861 throughout the Second Empire.^[6]

He received an award from the Alliance Israélite Universelle for his book, De la vitalité de la race juive en Europe (1865).^[8]