Microdata on the Belgian Population for 1961--2001: Documenting and Reconstructing the 1961 Census Sample

Wouter Ronsijn

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2014, vol. 47, issue 1, 45-55

Abstract: This article describes the background and reconstruction of the Belgian 1961 census sample file. Recently, a complete codebook for the sample file has been drawn up, and the representativeness of the sample has been evaluated as accurate, except for the loss of cases that occurred for three Belgian subregions. With the addition of the 1961 census sample, cross-sectional microdata from the five successive population censuses since that year, covering a broad range of topics, are now available to the research community. The reconstruction of the 1961 census sample was part of the activities of the HISSTAT project, which is currently being run by a consortium of research institutions in Belgium to bring together cross-sectional aggregated data since 1800, aggregated longitudinal data since 1880, and cross-sectional microdata since 1961, all covering the entire country.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2013.836054

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