Spatiotemporal historical datasets at micro-level for geocoded individuals in five Swedish parishes, 1813-1914.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents datasets that enable historical longitudinal studies of micro-level geographic factors in a rural setting. These types of datasets are new, as historical demography studies have generally failed to properly include the micro-level geographic factors. Our datasets describe the geography over five Swedish rural parishes, and by linking them to a longitudinal demographic database, we obtain a geocoded population (at the property unit level) for this area for the period 1813-1914. The population is a subset of the Scanian Economic Demographic Database (SEDD). The geographic information includes the following feature types: property units, wetlands, buildings, roads and railroads. The property units and wetlands are stored in object-lifeline time representations (information

SUBMITTER: Hedefalk F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5387924 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature