Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania
This article describes the formation of The Tasmanian Historical Dataset a longitudinal data resource spanning the 19th and early 20th century. This resource contains over 1.6 million records drawn from digitised prison and hospital admission registers, military enlistment papers, births, deaths and...
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| author | Trudy Cowley Lucy Frost Kris Inwood Rebecca Kippen Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Monika Schwarz John Shepherd Richard Tuffin Mark Williams John Wilson Paul Wilson |
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| description | This article describes the formation of The Tasmanian Historical Dataset a longitudinal data resource spanning the 19th and early 20th century. This resource contains over 1.6 million records drawn from digitised prison and hospital admission registers, military enlistment papers, births, deaths and marriages, census and muster records, arrival and departure lists, bank accounts and property valuations, maps and plans and meteorological observations. As well as providing an account of the many different sources that have been digitised coded and linked as part of this initiative, the article outlines current and past research uses to which this data has been put. Further information on tables and key variables is provided in an appendix. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0f8c8a43a5854b82b382cbfcdb1acc452025-02-02T07:49:26ZengInternational Institute of Social HistoryHistorical Life Course Studies2352-63432021-08-0110.51964/hlcs10912Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for TasmaniaTrudy Cowley0Lucy Frost1Kris Inwood2Rebecca Kippen3Hamish Maxwell-Stewart4Monika Schwarz5John Shepherd6Richard Tuffin7Mark Williams8John Wilson9Paul Wilson10Monash UniversityUniversity of TasmaniaUniversity of GuelphMonash UniversityUniversity of New EnglandMonash UniversityUniversity of New EnglandUniversity of New EnglandUniversity of TasmaniaUniversity of South AustraliaUniversity of TasmaniaThis article describes the formation of The Tasmanian Historical Dataset a longitudinal data resource spanning the 19th and early 20th century. This resource contains over 1.6 million records drawn from digitised prison and hospital admission registers, military enlistment papers, births, deaths and marriages, census and muster records, arrival and departure lists, bank accounts and property valuations, maps and plans and meteorological observations. As well as providing an account of the many different sources that have been digitised coded and linked as part of this initiative, the article outlines current and past research uses to which this data has been put. Further information on tables and key variables is provided in an appendix.https://hlcs.nl/article/view/10912Longitudinal historical datasetsHistory of crimeHistory of healthLife course historyHistorical demographyHistorical GIS |
| spellingShingle | Trudy Cowley Lucy Frost Kris Inwood Rebecca Kippen Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Monika Schwarz John Shepherd Richard Tuffin Mark Williams John Wilson Paul Wilson Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania Historical Life Course Studies Longitudinal historical datasets History of crime History of health Life course history Historical demography Historical GIS |
| title | Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania |
| title_full | Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania |
| title_fullStr | Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania |
| title_short | Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania |
| title_sort | reconstructing a longitudinal dataset for tasmania |
| topic | Longitudinal historical datasets History of crime History of health Life course history Historical demography Historical GIS |
| url | https://hlcs.nl/article/view/10912 |
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