MOSAIC: Recovering Surviving Census Records to Reconstruct Population, Economic, and Cultural History
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Start project |
2011-05-26 |
End Project |
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Main topic |
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Description |
Censuses microdata offer a unique resource for comparative research, because they can be integrated across time and space. The goal of the MOSAIC project is to extend the collection and distribution of historical micro-censuses to Continental Europe, and through this to include regions not covered by large scale data infrastructure initiatives such as Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP). These regions typically have only partially surviving records, located decentrally in the multitude of local and regional archives. The intention of MOSAIC is to mobilize an intra-European partnership and to generate resources in order to put the pieces back together again.
A historical infrastructure will be built in three steps:
- Forming a broad European partnership for historical census microdata to recruit members and collect contributions of all nineteenth-century historical census material that has already been digitized. The goal is to identify already existing data files of historical census microdata, to create a centralized depot for such records, and to integrate the latter into a common file format allowing comparative research across time and space (based on IPUMS and NAPP standards).
- Inventories of local surviving census material will be commissioned to add to the stock of data already available in some kind of electronic format. These inventories will be created by local historians visiting and communicating with their own local archives.
- Statistical sampling schemes will be designed to create low-cost, high value samples from the universe of all surviving census records. These samples will be representative and scalable. The project´s major strategic line is to start with a wide, but relatively low-density coverage of most of Europe, and then move systematically towards comprehensive and high-density data coverage. The efforts will concentrate on those countries without existing 100-percent-samples of historical microdata.
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Activities |
- Data collection
- Data harmonization
- Data distribution
- Conferences
- Workshops
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- University of Graz
- Karl Kaser
- Peter Teibenbacher
- University of Vienna
- Markus Cerman
- Josef Ehmer
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- KU Leuven
- Koen Matthij
- Paul Puschmann
- Mattijs Vandezande
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- Institute for Population and Human Studies (Sofia)
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EHESS-CRH
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- University of Rennes 2
- University of Bordeaux 3
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- University of Berlin
- Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg
- Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin
- Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
- University of Bonn
- University of Frankfurt (Oder)
- University of Halle-Wittenberg
- Georg Fertig
- Manfred Hettling
- University of Münster
- University of Rostock
- Gabriele Doblhammer-Reiter
- Stefan Kroll
- University of Tübingen
- Jörg Baten
- Franziska Tollnek
- Westphalian Society for Genealogy and Family Research
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- Demographic Research Institute Budapest
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- National Archives Ireland
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- University of Padova
- University of Parma
- University of Sassari
- Marco Breschi
- Lucia Pozzi
- University of Udine
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- International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam
- Radboud University Nijmegen
- Utrecht University
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- University of Bergen
- University of Tromsö
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- Lisbon University Institute
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- University of Cluj
- Ioan Bolovan
- Daniela Detesan
- University of Bucharest
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- Institute of History, Belgrade
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- Centre for Demographic Studies, Barcelona
- Anna Cabré
- Albert Esteve
- Joana Maria Pujades Mora
- Complutense University of Madrid
- Spanish Council for Scientific Research
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- Demographic Data Base - Umea University
- National Archives Sweden
- Swedish National Data Service
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- Istanbul Bilgi University
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- Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
- Newcastle University
- University of Cambridge
- University of Essex
- University of Leicester
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- Iowa State University
- Minnesota Population Center
- Lara Cleveland
- Catherine Fitch
- Patricia Kelly Hall
- Bob McCaa
- Evan Roberts
- Steven Ruggles
- Matthew Sobek
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Funding body |
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
Co-ordinator |
Siegfried Gruber |
Contact details |
Siegfried Gruber
gruber@demogr.mpg.de |
Links to project |
http://www.censusmosaic.org/cgi-bin/index.plx |