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FOLKNET database - Demographic Data Base

SND-ID: ext0085-1.

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Umeå university, Demographic database

Research principal

Umeå University - Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research, Demographic Data Base rorId

Description

The database FOLKNET contains information about the population in Sweden’s parishes, cities and municipalities according to the geographical division around 1990, every ten years during the period 1810–1990.

The data has been collected by Christian Svärd, and the Demographic Data Base has digitized the information. The information has mainly been taken from Statistics Sweden’s historical publications. Additional data have been collected from the population forms of the database TABVERK.

The database POPULATION is freely available from the home page of the Demographic Data Base.

Data contains personal data

No

Language

Method and outcome

Unit of analysis

Time period(s) investigated

1810 – 1990

Variables

23

Number of individuals/objects

2871

Data format / data structure

Data collection
Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Geographic description: Sweden

Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research, Demographic Data Base

Topic and keywords

Research area

History (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Demography (population, vital statistics, and censuses) (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Censuses (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Keywords

Demography, Demographic statistics, Congregations, Demographic statistics

Publications

Contact for questions about the data

Mattias Sandström

mattias.sandstrom@umu.se