The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN)

Here you can find the programme and papers of the Workshop 'Population Reconstruction'.

Date:

19 February 2014 to 21 February 2014

Location:

IISH, Amsterdam

HSN datarelease UT.03 is the first public HSN datarelease and contains the outcomes of the HSN basic sample in the province of Utrecht for the period (of birth) of 1812-1922. On a limited scale two 'forerunners' have already been distributed.

Lots of people worked on the Historical Sample of the Netherlands over the years.

• You can check the current HSN staff on the staff page.

On this page you can browse the HSN staff from the past twenty years.

The data of the HSN database can be divided into two categories:

1. Data from events from the civil certificates
2. Data with a more or less continuous character from the population registers

The backbone or basis of the HSN database consists of life course data from a sample of about 85,000 persons, drawn from the birth certificates of the period 1812-1922. The life course data belonging to this ‘basic’ database is limited to two types of historical sources: the civil certificates and the population register (from 1850 onwards).

Annual reports of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN). Text in Dutch until 2013.

HSN activities can be divided into three categories:

The HSN is located at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. It is part of the IISH research department. Decisions regarding projects are made by the Steering Group.

The HSN started around 1987 with the formation of a work group whose members were from different social science disciplines like sociology, social-economic history, social geography, economics and demography, all sharing relatively strong historical interest.

The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) strives to construct life histories as completely as possible for a representative portion of the nineteenth and twentieth century population in The Netherlands.

Reglement ter regeling van de bescherming van gegevens in eigendom van de Stichting Historische Steekproef Nederlandse Bevolking, zoals vastgesteld op haar bestuursvergadering van 25 september 2002 en gewijzigd op 29 augustus 2008.