The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN)

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The HSN offers a representative sample of about 85,000 people born in the Netherlands during 1812-1922. The HSN-database containing individual life-courses is a unique tool for research in Dutch history and demography.

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Conversion tools

21 May 2024 12:34

These tools are coding tables that transform vocabularies, for example, standardized occupational titles into HISCO or HISCO into status codes.

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Vocabulary Page (Value Lists)

21 May 2024 12:24

Historical concepts can be described using standardized vocabularies. Three steps are required for coding historical concepts:

  1. standardization of titles,
  2. grouping into codes
  3. assigning status codes. 
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Schemas

15 April 2024 17:22

There are two kinds of schemas within historical demography. IPUMS-USA, IPUMS-International, MOSAIC, and NAPP were developed to standardize census data. IDS, LINKS-gen, and PiCo are efforts to standardize historical data from other types of historical sources, such as the civil registry, militia registers, parish registers, population registers, slave registers, or tax registers. All schemas cater to a very specific public, as they have been developed for projects with strong institutional boundaries.

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HSNDB - databases for historical and contemporary research

29 May 2024 15:06

HSNDB is the collective name for the datasets containing Dutch individuals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with which more than 500 publications have been written on issues such as life histories, social mobility, infant mortality and longevity. Of these, the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) and LINKS are the most prominent.

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SSHOC-NL

22 December 2023 17:22

SSHOC-NL is a cooperation between the HSNDB and the Central Bureau of Genealogy (CBG).

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Standardized occupations

22 December 2023 17:11

The Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (HISCO) is a standard to make historical occupations comparable across time and space, similar to the contemporary ISCO codes. The HSNDB provides donated occupational titles in a multitude of languages via:

For the Netherlands HSNDB has been releasing a standardized list of occupational titles and concomitant HISCO codes since 2013. All titles are standardized into a uniform spelling, and provided with a HISCO code.

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HDNG

22 December 2023 16:45

The Historical Database of Dutch Municipalities (Historische Database Nederlandse Gemeenten) is a database that holds different historical characteristics of Dutch municipalities, such as population size, election results, industrialization, and migration.

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HSN

22 December 2023 15:52

The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) was initiated during the period 1987−1989 when an interdisciplinary and interuniversity group of Dutch scholars started discussing the foundation of one large database with data on individuals.

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LINKS

22 December 2023 15:42

LINKS is a linking system for historical family reconstruction. The core data of the LINKS system consists of indexed civil certificates. These certificates are available from 1812 — the start of the Dutch Vital Registration — until the year they are confidential based on privacy laws.