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21 Oct 2022
Issue 2, 2022 of @HistMethod presents "Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in historical census data" by @aj_szo , Bartosz Ogórek, Siegfried Gruber & Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia
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21 Oct 2022
"...our results crucially demonstrate that in a few dozen of our locations, the observed values of CSRs appear to be too high to be solely attributable to random variation, infant mortality, or the quality of the census."
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16 Oct 2022
Issue 2, 2022 of @HistMethod presents "The regional occupational structure in interwar England and Wales" by Robin C. M. Philips, Matteo Calabrese, Robert Keenan & Bas van Leeuwen
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16 Oct 2022
"In the current paper, we fill this gap by reconstructing the occupational structure at the district level, based on a recently-digitized register for 1939 and by linking this dataset with the population censuses of 1911 and 1921."
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14 Oct 2022
Issue 2, 2022 of @HistMethod presents "British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis" by Robert J. Bennett & Leslie Hannah
ALT Image taken from: https://uk1851census.com/introduction/
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14 Oct 2022
"Non-response derives from defective census design and administration. Transcription truncations are also evaluated... Guidance to researchers on weighting and robust estimation strategies are presented for dealing with these limitations."
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6 Jun 2022
Issue 1, 2022 of @HistMethod presents "EconHist: a relational database for analyzing the evolution of economic history (1980–2019)" by @AlvaroLaParra, Félix-Fernando Muñoz & Nadia Fernandez-de-Pinedo @Nadsfp
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6 Jun 2022
"This article provides a systematic method for collecting and analyzing the scientific production—in the form of indexed articles—of a broad and representative sample of authors who identify themselves as economic historians." The result is the relational database EconHist
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6 Jun 2022
Issue 1, 2022, also includes "Overflowing tables: Changes in the energy intake and the social context of Thanksgiving in the United States" by Diana Thomas @MathArmy, G.Yoshitani, D.Turner, A.Hariharan, S.Bhutani, D.B.Allison, A.Moniz,S.Heymsfield, D.A.Schoeller,H.Hull & D.Fields
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6 Jun 2022
Using historic newspapers, height & weight data & natural language processing to analyze tweets & Google searches about Thanksgiving, the authors find that "body weights and mean energy intake have steadily increased over time with the most rapid increases occurring since 1941
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6 Jun 2022
Check out this presentation by Jonas Helgertz, who also published a recent article in @HistMethod titled "A new strategy for linking U.S. historical censuses: A case study for the IPUMS multigenerational longitudinal panel" (available here tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…)
6 Jun 2022
Interested in the newest developments of record linkage techniques for historical censuses? Join our next seminar with Jonas Helgertz (@minnpop @ipums)
📅 Thursday, 9th June, 11:30 AM
📧genpop@unibo.it to get info and the link
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6 Jun 2022
The co-authors on this publication were: @joepricebyu , Jacob Wellington, Kelly J Thompson, @HistDem & @CathyFitch
6 Jun 2022
Another article included in @HistMethod Issue 1, 2022, is "The antebellum roots of distinctively black names" by Lisa D. Cook, John Parman & Trevon Logan tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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6 Jun 2022
Using 1900-1920 census data from DC, Georgia, Michigan and New York, the authors argue "Black naming patterns existed in the antebellum era and...racial distinctiveness in naming patterns was an established practice well before Emancipation." @drlisadcook @jmparman @TrevonDLogan
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