Data

Openarch deaths

• Cleaned, deduplicated and (partially) standardized version of Dutch death certificates (c. 1811-1960), retrieved from openarch.nl. The csv files per archive, used to create this dataset, were retrieved in January 2020. Scripts used to create this dataset are available at github/wp4-civreg (version 1.0).
• Repository

Church construction data

• A dataset on church construction in Western Europe, 700–1500, based on OpenStreetMap. 🗺 ⛪
• Licence (following the OSM source licence).
• Full repository.
• Frequently requested slices:
  • Western Europe series
  • Western Europe by type of church
  • Western Europe by city geography
  • By country
• More info and citation:
  • Buringh, Eltjo, Bruce M.S. Campbell, Auke Rijpma, and Jan Luiten van Zanden. “Church Building and the Economy during Europe’s ‘Age of the Cathedrals’, 700–1500 CE.” Explorations in Economic History 76 (April 2020): 101316.
  • Rijpma, Auke, Jan Luiten Van Zanden, Eltjo Buringh, and Bruce MS Campbell. (“Reproduction Files for Church Building and the Economy.”)[https://doi.org/10.3886/E115381V1] ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2019.

Gender equality data

• An long-term index of gender equality.
• V1:
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  • More info/citation: “Gender Equality since 1820.”; “Introducing the Historical Gender Equality Index.”; “Achieving Gender Equality: Development versus Historical Legacies.”.
• V2:
  • An updated version extending the data to the start of the twentieth century (exact starting date varies by country) and to 2010.
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  • More info/citation: “Gender Equality since 1900.”.

Todd/Murdock data

• A dataset on historical family characteristics around the globe.
• Data
• More info and citation: Rijpma, Auke, and Sarah G. Carmichael. “Testing Todd and Matching Murdock: Global Data on Historical Family Characteristics.” Economic History of Developing Regions 31, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 10–46.