RICHARD DESWARTE ………………………………………... HEAD OF THE HISTORY DATA SERVICE

Histpop – The Online Historical Populations Report website and other census resources from the HDS

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HEAD OF THE HISTORY DATA SERVICEESDS SOCIAL HISTORY DATA MANAGERUK DATA ARCHIVEUNIVERSITY OF ESSEX………………………………………...

Celebrating the Census, The National Archives1 OCTOBER 2011

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OVERVIEW

• UK Data Archive and the History Data Service

• Historical census and population resources: data collections

• Historical census population resources: CHCC & histpop

• Future

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What is the HDS

• Originally founded in 1993 as the History Data Unit

• From April 2008 History Data Service (HDS)

• Small team of historians and IT specialists

• Part of the UK Data Archive, University of Essex

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What we do

HDS collects, preserves and disseminates digital resources that support historical research and teaching.

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What we actually do

• Collect and preserve historical digital resources

• Provide access via a fully searchable and indexed catalogue record to a wide-ranging collection of historical digital resources

• Create thematic special collections, and enrich and enhance selected data collections

• Offer guidance on creating and documenting digital resources from historical sources

• Raise awareness of the value of historical data collections and their potential for secondary use

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HDS collection

Over 650 separate data collectionstranscribed, scanned or compiled from historical sources

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Census and population data collections

Over 150 downloadable data collections related to census and population statistics

Including:

• Complete 1881 Census, SN 4177 (HE/FE only)

• Samples and subsets, i.e. SN 1316 National Sample from the 1851 Census Of Great Britain

• County returns, i.e. SN 6683 Warwickshire Census Returns, 1891

• Census enumerators’ returns, i.e. SN 4710 Census Enumerators’ returns for Kingston Upon Thames & SN 5596 Scottish Census Enumerators’ books: Skye, Kimarnock, Rothiemay and Torthorwald, 1861-1901

• Census statistics & aggregated data, i.e. SN 4560 Great Britain Historical Database: Census Data: Parish-level Population Statistics, 1801-1951 & SN 4093 Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics: Population, 1570-1974

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Census and population data collections (cont.)

• Foreign census and population data from Canada, US, Sri Lanka, i.e. SN 456 Canadian Census and Election Data 1908-1968

• Pre-modern population and demographic data, i.e. SN 4491 Parish Register Aggregate Analyses, 1662-1811, SN 5694 Electronic Edition of Domesday Book & SN 5687 COEL Database: Continental Origins of English Landholders, 1066-1166

• Themed datasets:• Occupations & occupational structure, i.e. SN 5432 1851 Census Principal

Towns Occupational Data

• Emigration, i.e. SN 3580 Database of Irish Historical Statistics : Emigration, 1851-1911

• Religion, i.e. SN 5749 Religious Census of Northamptonshire, 1851 & SN 1660 Segregation and Social Structure in early 20th century Belfast, 1901

• Mortality, i.e. SN 4147 Deaths in Scotland, 1861-1911; by Age, County, Gender and Year

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CHCC

• Contemporary and Historical Census Collection (CHCC) was originally a JISC funded project to improve online accessibility to primary census resources.

• Contains: • transcription of the 1881 census enumerators' books – 26 million

individuals• 2% sample of the 1851 census enumerators’ books – 400 000 individuals• Aggregate-level demographic data – the Great Britain Historical Database

& Database of Welsh Historical Statistics

• Provides information about the name, address, relationship to the head of household, marital status, age, occupation, birthplace and disabilities of millions of individuals, as well as a large group of derived demographic variables.

• Download online subsets of enumerators’ books and specific tables from GBHD & DWHS.

• http://hds.essex.ac.uk/history/data/chcc.asp

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CHCC

• Functional but simplistic

• Tabular data only; no images of original documents

• No historical context

• Valuable to expert user but less so for more general user

• Limited to UK HE & FE only

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histpop

• The Online Historical Population Reports Website provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937

• 200,000 pages of census and registration material for the British Isles as well as ancillary documents from The National Archives, critical essays and transcriptions of important legislation

• Provides a wealth of textual and statistical material which offer an in-depth view of the economy, society (through births, deaths and marriages) and medicine during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

• Direct searching of the content and enhanced browsing through the collection by date or geography

• http://www.histpop.org/

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histpop – Features

• Browsing

• Context• Ancillary documents• Academic essays

• Images • Quality• Downloadable PDF or TIFF• Rotate and enlarge

• Downloadable tables – machine readable format

• Citation

• Metadata

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Histpop – Users

• Wide-ranging – academic to general public

• 3000 unique users & 50 000 page views per month

• Research – economics, health, local government, PhDs

• Teaching – bespoke historical Census courses, online historical statistics courses

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Future resource – I-CeM

• Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) project will bring together more than 200 million individual records from censuses for Great Britain between 1851-1911

• Joint project between the History Dept at Essex and the UK Data Archive – led by Professor Kevin Schürer & Dr Edward Higgs

• Will create largest collection of its kind in world and potentially lead to the creation of a Victorian Panel Survey

• Will combine computerised versions of censuses from that period to create a unique online historical resource full of vast amounts of information on every house, household and individual in the country for that period

• A great UK Data Archive & HDS resource of the future

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QUESTIONS & FURTHER INFORMATION

ESDS catalogue - http://www.esds.ac.uk/Lucene/Search.aspx

histpop - http://www.histpop.org/

CHCC - http://hds.essex.ac.uk/history/data/chcc.asp

HISTORY DATA SERVICEUK Data ArchiveUniversity of Essex

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