Datasets created as part of the HSNDB infra-structure, including HSN, LINKS, place names, occupations.
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Overview databases with historical longitudinal data
Oct 24, 2025 - HSNDB-surveys
Mandemakers, Kees, 2025, "Overview databases with historical longitudinal data", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/VEODGX, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:IH1cyj0/An3Ilad36Qdukg== [fileUNF]
In the last 65 years several major historical databases with reconstructed life courses of large populations have been launched. Around 1990, we could find two important types of databases with longitudinal micro-data. The first type were event databases aimed on family reconstru...
CLAIR-HD - Common Language for Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability in Historical Demography
Oct 22, 2025 - HSNDB-surveys
Mourits, Rick J, 2025, "CLAIR-HD - Common Language for Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability in Historical Demography", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/0LMVDB, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:dnuD+r0Sjbw6pjI19HrwkA== [fileUNF]
Historical demographers have designed schemas and vocabularies to standardize historical data. CLAIR-HD gathered these schemes to create an overview of the existing languages used in historical demography. The state of the field was summarised in 2024 by Mourits, Stapel, and Risw...
Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN). Data Set Civil Certificates Release
Jun 13, 2025 - HSNDB-HSN
Mandemakers, Kees; Mourits, Rick J; Zijdeman, Richard L, 2025, "Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN). Data Set Civil Certificates Release", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/55PJBN, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:Jkk8aUDTNDYjFq6mmQ7LMw== [fileUNF]
This release entails data from the certificates (births, marriages, and deaths) and survival data from different sources. With this release earlier versions are improved and enlarged. This release includes a survival table, which is based on information from the other registratio...
HSNDB Standardisation Tables
Jun 12, 2025 - HSNDB-AUXILIARY
Mourits, Rick J; Mandemakers, K.; Laan, F.; Munnik, C.; Meijer, K., 2024, "HSNDB Standardisation Tables", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/IKB8HO, IISH Data Collection, V3, UNF:6:tPdATGBY+dCx49ElotiAXg== [fileUNF]
These are the files that the HSNDB uses to standardise: - age - family names - given names - religions - toponyms / locations Version history: v1: 2024, Jun 26 v2: 2024, Aug 5 updated ref_age v3: 2025, Jun 12 updated ref_age, ref_religion
Linked Civil Registry, Netherlands - births and marriages only, Release 2020_01
Apr 7, 2025 - HSNDB-LINKS
Mandemakers, Kees; Laan, Fons, 2020, "Linked Civil Registry, Netherlands - births and marriages only, Release 2020_01", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/3EQZNT, IISH Data Collection, V3
LINKS Dataset Linked Births and Marriage Certificates Parents, Netherlands, Release 2020_01. Before using the data it is imperative to study the documentation extensively. Lack of understanding of the data setup and limitations of linking procedures will lead to ungrounded conclu...
Linked Civil Registry, Netherlands - marriages only, Release 2020_03
Apr 7, 2025 - HSNDB-LINKS
Mandemakers, Kees; Laan, Fons, 2021, "Linked Civil Registry, Netherlands - marriages only, Release 2020_03", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/MR4GPS, IISH Data Collection, V3
LINKS Dataset Linked Marriage Certificates, Netherlands, Release 2020_03 v3: added documentation
Survey of historical databases with longitudinal micro-data: The second questionnaire
Survey of historical databases with longitudinal micro-data: The second questionnaire
Feb 6, 2025 - HSNDB-surveys
Moisseenko, Tatiana; Koster, Marja, 2025, "Survey of historical databases with longitudinal micro-data: The second questionnaire", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/SEY90H, IISH Data Collection, V1
In 2015, the HSNDB sent out surveys to multiple data centers to document their databases on historical persons. The surveys were an upgrade and extension of an earlier effort in 2009, available at https://hdl.handle.net/10622/VUJHAG. The goal was to start a European Historical Po...
Survey of historical databases with longitudinal micro-data
Feb 6, 2025 - HSNDB-surveys
Alter, George; Mandemakers, Kees, 2025, "Survey of historical databases with longitudinal micro-data", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/VUJHAG, IISH Data Collection, V1
In 2009, the HSN (now HSNDB) sent out surveys to multiple data centers to document their databases on historical persons. The surveys were part of the 'Towards a Global Life Course' project to improve cooperation between important players in the fields of historical micro-data, w...
HSNDB-surveys(IISG)
Jan 6, 2025
HSN personal cards - SSD matching subset
Oct 14, 2024 - HSNDB-SUBSAMPLES
Mourits, Rick J; Mandemakers, Kees, 2024, "HSN personal cards - SSD matching subset", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/KAKABB, IISH Data Collection, V5, UNF:6:JDL0D+QiFKHvV0qTDShREA== [fileUNF]
The Netherlands has two key databases to study of social inequalities across the life course and over generations: the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) for persons born in the Netherlands from 1812 until 1922, and the System of Social statistical Datasets (SSD) with reg...
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