Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914

Stefania Galli, Rönnbäck Klas and Theodoridis Dimitrios
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Rönnbäck Klas: Unit for Economic History, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: Box 720, SE 40530 Göteborg, Sweden
Theodoridis Dimitrios: Unit for Economic History, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: Box 720, SE 40530 Göteborg, Sweden

No 32, Göteborg Papers in Economic History from University of Gothenburg, Unit for Economic History

Abstract: In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for a full population in the Caribbeans over the long run, the DWI panel. The panel contains over 1.35 million observations spanning 154 years, well over 100 variables, and its records are linked across sources along demographic and geographic lines throughout the entire period. This richness is all the more valuable in light of the limited source’s availability characteristics of the area and is hoped to lead to a renewed debate over our understanding of former slave societies, while fostering collaborations with scholars relying on similar datasets for other areas of the world.

Keywords: Big data; micro data; panel construction; record linking; colonialism; slavery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 F54 J47 N01 N36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2023-07-01
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