Linking Individual Historical Demographic Data: Province of West Flanders, Belgium

Arne Aelvoet, Hideko Matsuo, Koenraad Matthijs and Erik Buyst

No 561364, Working Papers of Department of Economics, Leuven from KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Economics, Leuven

Abstract: The West-Flemish Demographic database (WFDD) is constructed as part of the project ‘New approaches to the social dynamics of long-term fertility change’ (http://soc.kuleuven.be/ceso/fapos/nasdltfc/index) led by Prof. dr. Koen Matthijs. This work builds on the specific work package implemented by Prof. dr. Erik Buyst, who is co-promotor in the aforementioned interdisciplinary research project. This database is specially tailored to the needs of life course analysts and covers 239 West-Flemish communities (Belgium) during the period 1600-1910. In this technical report we describe the construction of the WFDD in detail. Section 1 describes the historical sources, field work activities and coverage. Section 2 defines the variables used during the linkage process. Section 3 outlines the linkage procedure. Section 4 evaluates the linkage procedure and section 5 concludes.

Date: 2016-12-09
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