Survey of historical databases with longitudinal micro-data

The surveys were part of the 'Towards a Global Life Course' project to improve cooperation between important players in the fields of historical micro-data, which was funded by NWO, IISG, ICPSR and DDB Umea. This database contains the filled out questionnaires, anonymized by obscuring the name, email address, and telephone number of the respondent.

At the time they wrote: The historical community is now fortunate to have a growing number of large-scale, public databases of life histories from the past. Some of these databases have been under development for a long time, such as the Demographic Database in Umea, the Utah genealogical database, the Scania database in Lund and the PRDH and BALSAC in Quebec. Others are relatively recent, such as the Historical Sample of the Netherlands, and data collection activities are underway in other European countries as well as Japan and China.