Data · dataset · 2025
Overview databases with historical longitudinal data
Listed in IISH Dataverse
In the last 65 years several major historical databases with reconstructed life courses of large populations have been launched.
Description
Around 1990, we could find two important types of databases with longitudinal micro-data. The first type were event databases aimed on family reconstructions and usually based on baptism, marriage and funeral registers or on civil certificates introduced after 1800.
The second type were databases with life courses: persons are observed on a more permanent basis using church examination or population registers. After 1990 a third type, databases with census data, really took off. In first instance in the form of samples, in second instance by entering full count samples which makes it possible to link the several censuses into one system, creating semi-longitudinal databases.
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Another development was the growth of special purpose samples into semi-longitudinal ones by following sampled persons from one source during their life course through linking with all kind of other sources. The development of these databases is indicative of considerable investments that have greatly expanded the possibilities for new research within the fields of history, demography, sociology, as well as other disciplines.
Fields with an asterisk are estimated.
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Where it is published
- Dataverse dataset page dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.34894%2F2O4VFR ↗
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- DOI doi.org/10.34894/2o4vfr ↗
DOI / persistent id · from datasets iisg amsterdam
Catalogue records · 1
- Dataverse API dataverse.nl/api/datasets/:persistentId/?persistentId=doi%3A10.34894%2F2O4V… ↗
metadata API · from datasets iisg amsterdam
Topics
- Stated by source
- Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences
- From keywords
- Humanities · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Historical studies 69% · Longitudinal study 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 12 field assertions
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| IISH Dataverse | doi:10.34894/2O4VFR | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4303 | enrichment · datasets iisg amsterdam | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
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| concepts[field].dataverse_subject:social-sciences | source · datasets iisg amsterdam | connector:datasets_iisg_amsterdam@1.0.0 | /subjects |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · datasets iisg amsterdam | connector:datasets_iisg_amsterdam@1.0.0 | /subjects |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · datasets iisg amsterdam | connector:datasets_iisg_amsterdam@1.0.0 | /subjects |
| concepts[method].local:method:longitudinal-study | enrichment · datasets iisg amsterdam | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
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| description | source · datasets iisg amsterdam | connector:datasets_iisg_amsterdam@1.0.0 | /description |
| publication_date | source · datasets iisg amsterdam | connector:datasets_iisg_amsterdam@1.0.0 | |
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