From Matched Certificates to Related Persons
For the Netherlands, a rich new data source has become available which contains indexed civil certificates for multiple generations of individuals: LINKS. The current version of the dataset contains information on 1.7 million demographic events for the province of Zeeland in the 19th and early 20th...
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International Instititute of Social History
2020-10-01
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| author | Rick Mourits Ingrid K. van Dijk Kees Mandemakers |
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| description | For the Netherlands, a rich new data source has become available which contains indexed civil certificates for multiple generations of individuals: LINKS. The current version of the dataset contains information on 1.7 million demographic events for the province of Zeeland in the 19th and early 20th centuries and will be extended to other provinces in the Netherlands in the near future. To be able to study demographic behaviour, life courses and family relations need to be reconstructed from the civil certificates. This paper describes the steps that are taken to move from the LINKS database, which contains digitised birth, marriage, and death certificates and relational information between individuals on these certificates, to LINKS-gen, which contains over six hundred thousand life courses, family reconstructions for up to seven generations, and fertility, marital, mortality, and occupational status information, ready for analysis. We present procedures for variable construction and data cleaning. Furthermore, we give a short overview of the LINKS database, discuss quality checks, and give advice on selection of relevant cases necessary to move from LINKS to LINKS-gen. The paper is accompanied by R-scripts to convert and construct the datafiles. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cad8542d9764456b951dc8e30df462b12022-12-21T20:20:14ZengInternational Instititute of Social HistoryHistorical Life Course Studies2352-63432020-10-01910.51964/hlcs9310From Matched Certificates to Related PersonsRick MouritsIngrid K. van DijkKees MandemakersFor the Netherlands, a rich new data source has become available which contains indexed civil certificates for multiple generations of individuals: LINKS. The current version of the dataset contains information on 1.7 million demographic events for the province of Zeeland in the 19th and early 20th centuries and will be extended to other provinces in the Netherlands in the near future. To be able to study demographic behaviour, life courses and family relations need to be reconstructed from the civil certificates. This paper describes the steps that are taken to move from the LINKS database, which contains digitised birth, marriage, and death certificates and relational information between individuals on these certificates, to LINKS-gen, which contains over six hundred thousand life courses, family reconstructions for up to seven generations, and fertility, marital, mortality, and occupational status information, ready for analysis. We present procedures for variable construction and data cleaning. Furthermore, we give a short overview of the LINKS database, discuss quality checks, and give advice on selection of relevant cases necessary to move from LINKS to LINKS-gen. The paper is accompanied by R-scripts to convert and construct the datafiles.https://www.openjournals.nl/index.php/hlcs/article/view/9310LongitudinalLongitudinal historical dataHistorical micro dataHistorical population databaseCivil registryData model |
| spellingShingle | Rick Mourits Ingrid K. van Dijk Kees Mandemakers From Matched Certificates to Related Persons Historical Life Course Studies Longitudinal Longitudinal historical data Historical micro data Historical population database Civil registry Data model |
| title | From Matched Certificates to Related Persons |
| title_full | From Matched Certificates to Related Persons |
| title_fullStr | From Matched Certificates to Related Persons |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Matched Certificates to Related Persons |
| title_short | From Matched Certificates to Related Persons |
| title_sort | from matched certificates to related persons |
| topic | Longitudinal Longitudinal historical data Historical micro data Historical population database Civil registry Data model |
| url | https://www.openjournals.nl/index.php/hlcs/article/view/9310 |
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