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HISTORICAL POPULATION RESOURCES AT THE UK DATA ARCHIVE

HISTORICAL POPULATION RESOURCES AT THE UK DATA ARCHIVE. ……………………………………………………….………………………………. RICHARD DESWARTE ………………………………………... HEAD OF THE HISTORY DATA SERVICE ESDS SOCIAL HISTORY DATA MANAGER UK DATA ARCHIVE UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX ……………………………………….

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HISTORICAL POPULATION RESOURCES AT THE UK DATA ARCHIVE

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  1. HISTORICAL POPULATION RESOURCES AT THE UK DATA ARCHIVE ……………………………………………………….……………………………….................................................................................................. RICHARD DESWARTE ………………………………………... HEAD OF THE HISTORY DATA SERVICE ESDS SOCIAL HISTORY DATA MANAGER UK DATA ARCHIVE UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX ………………………………………... Supporting the Digital Humanities, TU, Vienna20 OCTOBER 2010

  2. OVERVIEW • Historical population resources: CHCC & histpop • Creation and Development • Usage & Issues • Future

  3. CHCC • Contemporary and Historical Census Collection (CHCC) was originally a JISC funded project to improve online accessibility to primary census resources. • Contains: • transcription of the 1881 census enumerators' books – 26 million individuals • 2% sample of the 1851 census enumerators’ books – 400 000 individuals • Aggregate-level demographic data – the Great Britain Historical Database & Database of Welsh Historical Statistics • Provides information about the name, address, relationship to the head of household, marital status, age, occupation, birthplace and disabilities of millions of individuals, as well as a large group of derived demographic variables. • Download online subsets of enumerators’ books and specific tables from GBHD & DWHS. • http://hds.essex.ac.uk/history/data/chcc.asp

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  9. CHCC • Functional but simplistic • Tabular data only; no images of original documents • No historical context • Valuable to expert user but less so for more general user • Limited to UK HE & FE only

  10. histpop • The Online Historical Population Reports Website provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937 • 200,000 pages of census and registration material for the British Isles as well as ancillary documents from The National Archives, critical essays and transcriptions of important legislation • Provides a wealth of textual and statistical material which offer an in-depth view of the economy, society (through births, deaths and marriages) and medicine during the 19th and early 20th centuries. • Direct searching of the content and enhanced browsing through the collection by date or geography • http://www.histpop.org/

  11. Histpop – Why? • Limited availability • Incomplete • Quality of printed sources – damaged • Limited usability • Microfiche and microform – poorly indexed; limited searchability and usability • Disappearing

  12. Histpop – Features • Browsing • Context • Ancillary documents • Academic essays • Images • Quality • Downloadable PDF or TIFF • Rotate and enlarge • Downloadable tables – machine readable format • Citation • Metadata

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  21. Histpop – Users • Wide-ranging – academic to general public • 3000 unique users & 50 000 page views per month • Research – economics, health, local government, PhDs • Teaching – bespoke historical Census courses, online historical statistics courses

  22. Histpop & CHCC - Issues • Sustainability – self- sustaining • Technological obsolence • Correcting errors • User queries

  23. Future resource – I-CeM • Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) project will bring together more than 200 million individual records from censuses for Great Britain between 1851-1911 • Joint project between the History Dept at Essex and the UKDA – led by Professor Kevin Schürer & Dr Edward Higgs • Will create largest collection of its kind in world and potentially lead to the creation of a Victorian Panel Survey • Will combine computerised versions of censuses from that period to create a unique online historical resource full of vast amounts of information on every house, household and individual in the country for that period • A great UKDA & HDS resource of the future

  24. QUESTIONS & FURTHER INFORMATION histpop - http://www.histpop.org/ CHCC - http://hds.essex.ac.uk/history/data/chcc.asp HISTORY DATA SERVICE UK Data Archive University of Essex http://hds.essex.ac.uk/history/ UK DATA ARCHIVE UNIVERSIY OF ESSEX WIVENHOE PARK COLCHESTER ESSEX CO4 3SQ ……..……………………………….….. T +44 (0)1206 872001 E info@data-archive.ac.uk www.data-archive.ac.uk

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