The database POPULATION

This study is part of the collection SwedPop

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Umeå university, Demographic database

Description

The database POPULATION contains information about the population development in Sweden’s parishes, cities and municipalities according to the present classification 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.

Purpose:

The Demographic Database (DDB) is a special unit at Umeå University with activities focused on two main areas: data production and research. DDB creates and makes available population databases, mainly based on historical information in parish registers during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Subject area

DEMOGRAPHY (POPULATION, VITAL STATISTICS, AND CENSUSES), Censuses (CESSDA Topic Classification)
History (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

demography, demographic statistics, SwedPop

Principal organisation

Umeå University

Accessibility status

Access to data through an external actor
Data are freely accessible

Homepage

Demographic Data Base, The database POPULATION

Responsible department/unit

Umeå University, Demographic database

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Umeå university, Demographic database

Identifiers

SND-ID: EXT 0085

Description

The database POPULATION contains information about the population development in Sweden’s parishes, cities and municipalities according to the present classification 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.

Purpose:

The Demographic Database (DDB) is a special unit at Umeå University with activities focused on two main areas: data production and research. DDB creates and makes available population databases, mainly based on historical information in parish registers during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Time period(s) investigated

1810 — 1990

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Geographic description: Sweden

Unit of analysis

Subject area

DEMOGRAPHY (POPULATION, VITAL STATISTICS, AND CENSUSES), Censuses (CESSDA Topic Classification)
History (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

demography, demographic statistics, SwedPop

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Published: 2014-02-26
Last updated: 2017-02-27