Materials and Methods

Veijo Notkola and Harri Siiskonen
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Veijo Notkola: Interview and Research Services Statistics
Harri Siiskonen: University of Joensuu

Chapter 6 in Fertility, Mortality and Migration in SubSaharan Africa, 2000, pp 40-58 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this study the Evangelical Lutheran Church parish record data from Ovamboland, northern Namibia, were used as a primary source. Parish records include several different registers – for example, list of deaths, births, marriages, and migration – and they also include a main register where people are listed by family. Finnish missionaries started their work in Ovamboland during the 1870s. The earliest registers are from the 1880s, when the first Christians were baptized. In the central parts of northern Namibia, about 30–40 per cent of the estimated total population were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the 1950s. In the 1990s, the proportion is about 70 per cent. Until the 1940s notes on parish records were written on forms sent from Finland.

Keywords: Total Fertility Rate; Police Zone; Foster Child; Migration Data; Mortality Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333981344_6

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