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MOSAIC: Recovering Surviving Census Records to Reconstruct Population, Economic, and Cultural History
Start project
2011-05-26
End Project
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Main topic
Other
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.
Activities
Data collection Data harmonization Data distribution Conferences Workshops
Participants
	University of Graz Karl Kaser Peter Teibenbacher University of Vienna Markus Cerman Josef Ehmer
	KU Leuven Koen Matthij Paul Puschmann Mattijs Vandezande
	Institute for Population and Human Studies (Sofia) Antoaneta Hristova
	Danish Data Archive Nanna Floor Clausen
	EHESS-CRH Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux INED Lionel Kesztenbaum University of Rennes 2 Fabrice Boudjaaba University of Bordeaux 3 Stéphane Minvielle
	University of Berlin Sabine Hübner Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg Ulf Brunnbauer Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin Matthias Manke Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Patrick Heady University of Bonn Christian Schlöder University of Frankfurt (Oder) Rolf Gehrmann University of Halle-Wittenberg Georg Fertig Manfred Hettling University of Münster Ulrich Pfister University of Rostock Gabriele Doblhammer-Reiter Stefan Kroll University of Tübingen Jörg Baten Franziska Tollnek Westphalian Society for Genealogy and Family Research Volker Wilmsen
	Demographic Research Institute Budapest Peter Öri Levente Pakot
	National Archives Ireland Catriona Crowe
	University of Padova Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna University of Parma Matteo Manfredini University of Sassari Marco Breschi Lucia Pozzi University of Udine Alessio Fornasin
	University of Vilnius Dalia Leinarte
	International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam Kees Mandemakers Radboud University Nijmegen Jan Kok Utrecht University Marco H. D. van Leeuwen
	University of Bergen Arne Solli University of Tromsö Gunnar Thorvaldsen
	University of Bialystok Piotr Guzowski
	Lisbon University Institute Robert Lewis Rowland
	University of Cluj Ioan Bolovan Daniela Detesan University of Bucharest Bogdan Mateescu
	Moscow State University Irina Troitskaia
	Institute of History, Belgrade Aleksandra Vuletic
	Centre for Demographic Studies, Barcelona Anna Cabré Albert Esteve Joana Maria Pujades Mora Complutense University of Madrid David Reher Spanish Council for Scientific Research Diego Ramiro Farinas
	Demographic Data Base - Umea University Maria Larsson National Archives Sweden Mats Berggren Swedish National Data Service Hans Jörgen Marker
	University of Geneva Michel Oris
	Istanbul Bilgi University Alan Duben
	Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure Beatrice Moring Newcastle University Violetta Hionidou University of Cambridge Sheilagh Ogilvie University of Essex Matthew Woollard University of Leicester Kevin Schürer
	Iowa State University Andrejs Plakans Minnesota Population Center Lara Cleveland Catherine Fitch Patricia Kelly Hall Bob McCaa Evan Roberts Steven Ruggles Matthew Sobek University of Massachusetts Amherst Joel M. Halpern
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