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.
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.
Research principal, contributors, and funding
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Umeå University, Demographic database
Protection and ethical review
Data contains personal data
No
Method and time period
Unit of analysis
Time period(s) investigated
1810 – 1990
Geographic coverage
Topic and keywords
Research area
DEMOGRAPHY (POPULATION, VITAL STATISTICS, AND CENSUSES), Censuses
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
History
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
Publications