Work

The North Atlantic Population Project: Progress and Prospects

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) is a massive database of historical census microdata from European and North American countries. The backbone of the project is the unique collection of completely digitized censuses providing information on the entire enumerated populations of each country. In addition, for some countries, the NAPP includes sample data from surrounding census years. In this article, the authors provide a brief history of the project, describe their progress to data and plans for the future, and discuss some potential implications of this unique data resource for social and economic research.

Source: Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History

DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2010.515377

Authors: Steven Ruggles, Evan Roberts, Sula Sarkar, Matthew Sobek

Institution: University of Minnesota

Language: English

Topic: Historical Economic and Social Studies

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: Minnesota Population Center, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: North Atlantic Population Project, Microdata for Population Dynamics and Health Research, Integrated International Microdata for Population Dynamics and Health Research