Population Reconstruction

• Other Authors: Bloothooft, Gerrit; Christen, Peter; Mandemakers, Kees; Schraagen, Marijn
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences; Demography; Demography > Methodology; Population research; Demography; Demography > Methodology; Population research; Demografi > metodik; Computers > Database Management > Data Mining; Computers > Computer Science; History > Gener; 304.6072
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/75387
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Contents: Part I Data quality: cleaning and standardization -- 1 The Danish Demographic Database -- principles and methods for cleaning and standardization of data -- 2 Dutch historical toponyms in the Semantic Web -- 3 Automatic methods for coding historical occupation descriptions to standard classifications -- 4 Learning name variants from inexact high-confidence matches -- Part II Record linkage and validation -- 5 Advanced record linkage methods and privacy aspects for population reconstruction -- a survey and case studies -- 6 Reconstructing historical populations from genealogical data files -- 7 Multi-source entity resolution for genealogical data -- 8 Record linkage in the Historical Population Registry for Norway -- 9 Record linkage in Medieval and early modern texts -- Part III Life course reconstruction -- 10 Reconstructing lifespans through historical marriage records of Barcelona from the 16th and 17th centuries -- 11 Dancing with dirty data: Problems in the extraction of life-course evidence from historical censuses -- 12 Using the Canadian censuses of 1852 and 1881 for automatic data linkage: a case study of intergenerational social mobility -- 13 Introducing 'movers' into community