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Title: Guidelines for the Creation of Historical Microdata

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 1998

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Abstract: Historians interested in the historical experiences of ordinary Canadians face a considerable challenge. Letters and diaries, company and association reports and minutes, government records, and contemporary newspapers, magazines and literature shed light on prescribed ideals, social discourse, and, to a certain extent, actual behaviour. However, since the 1960s, historians have drawn upon routinely-generated sources such as parish registers and census enumerations to gain a long-term and systematic perspective on individual and family behaviour.2 The major challenge faced by these historians has been to transform such extensive and detailed sources into the more manageable form of machine-readable data. The creation of historical microdata allows researchers to take advantage of computer processing and statistical analysis to study the interrelationships among individual and family characteristics. The purpose of this paper is not to assert the validity and usefulness of such projects, which has been debated elsewhere, nor to . . .

Url: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/cfp/publications/Lisa Y Dillon.pdf

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Authors: Dillon, Lisa Y

Conference Name: Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting

Publisher Location: Ottawa

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Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Other

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