Historical dataset of administrative units with social-economic attributes for Austrian Silesia 1837-1910.

ABSTRACT: Scientists from many disciplines need historical administrative boundaries in order to analyse socio-economic data in space and time. In this paper, we present a set of historical data consisting of administrative unit boundaries and exemplary socio-economic attributes for Austrian Silesia, an historical region located in modern Czechia and Poland. The dataset covers nearly 700 administrative unit boundaries on the level of cadastral or political communes and their subparts and was acquired through manual vectorisation of historical maps (1:28,800) from the period 1837-1841. The local-level units can be easily joined into higher-level divisions such as court or political districts for the period 1837-1910. The data can then be combined with statistical data collected approximately every 10

SUBMITTER: Ostafin K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7326999 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature