Zeitschriftenartikel
Real and synthetic household populations and their analysis: an example of early historical census microdata (Rostock in 1819)
Gruber, S., Scholz, R. D., Szołtysek, M.
Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 44:2, 107–113 (2011)
Abstract
In this article, the authors describe a validation ofmethods
for dealing with census microdata with no delineated households.
The 1819 census of Rostock, Germany, is an enumeration of individuals
without household reference. Following a description of
this census, the authors test an algorithm that constructs households
from individual person records according to a strictly defined set of
rules. The rules for assigning people to household units are identified
by deducing them from the 1867 census of Rostock, which
enumerates individuals within household units. The authors then
assess the appropriateness of the algorithm’s fit to the census of
1819 and conclude with a discussion of the impact of the algorithm
on household structures for different groups within the urban population
and the strengths and weaknesses of this approach to the
construction of synthetic households.
Schlagwörter: Deutschland, census methods