Recovering surviving census records to reconstruct population, economic and cultural history of Europe
In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the demand for global data for research about historical family systems, historical demographic conditions, economic history, or the possible persistence of past cultural phenomena (path dependencies). Projects like IPUMS or NAPP provide already historical census microdata for scholarly research, but these projects are restricted either to the second half of the 20th century or Northwestern Europe. The Mosaic project intends to provide historical census microdata for Continental Europe. The different components of the Mosaic project are presented together with samples of historical census manuscripts. Finally some results of research using Mosaic data are shown.
Date: 30 April 2015, 14:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2015)
Venue: 66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall), 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Speaker: Dr Siegfried Gruber (University of Graz)
Organising department: Oxford Institute of Ageing
Organiser: Dr George W Leeson (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: administrator@ageing.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr George W Leeson (University of Oxford)
Part of: Historical Demography – A Place in Modern Demography?
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Emilie Walton