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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Aim of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) is to construct life courses as completely as possible for a representative sample of the nineteenth and early twentieth century population of the Netherlands and to make the data available to scientific researchers in the Netherlands and abroad.
