News and symposia

From last week on the forum Nederlandse Volkstellingen is open for public. Log in and you can immediately participate in discussions on several subjects, which are included in the collaboratory for researchers. For example you can ask a question or share ideas about a subject. It is also possible to add a new subject. If you want to know how the forum works, take a look at User instructions (only in Dutch). [The discussion forum is removed, March 2007.]

The collaboratory is a virtual workplace that aims at supporting researchers in their analyses of census data. Researchers can share information on e.g. their research projects, publications and datasets.
 

In advance of the conference on September 29th 2006, about 30 researchers met in a workshop held on January 27th 2006 at NWO in The Hague. The objective was to inform each other about their historical/demographic research ideas. This workshop was organized by NIWI-KNAW and DANS as part of the Dutch census digitization project.
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NIWI-KNAW has developed a search system, which makes it possible to search systematically into the census tables. You can search on subjects, keywords, provinces, census year, geographical level, and personal data (e.g. sex, age).

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“Twee eeuwen leven, wonen en werken in Nederland (19e en 20e eeuw). Een studie op basis van de digitale Nederlandse Volkstellingen 1795-2001”. This is the title of the upcoming conference on 29th September 2006 at NWO in The Hague. This conference will be the final event within the Life Courses in Context project. At the end of 2006 the proceedings will be published in one volume.
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The digitization of the Dutch Census Data is a current project. This means that every month new records (Adobe PDF format and MS Excel tables) will be added to this website. On the subpage new records you will find an overview of recently added records.
 

Statistics Netherlands makes it possible to access microdata files through DANS. These public-use data involve secured 1 percent samples from the microdata files regarding the censuses of 1960, 1971 and 2001. This service is part of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International project (IPUMS-International).
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Recently, researchers may consult the complete microdata files of the censuses 1960, 1971, and 2001 On Site at Statistics Netherlands. This concerns only researchers who work at institutes, which are recognized by the Central Commission for Statistics (CCS), e.g. universities and ministries.
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The concluding congress of 'Life Courses in context' will take place on Friday April 11th, 2008. The meeting will be held at the International Institute for Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. Funded by NWO-Groot, the last five years attempts have been made to reconstruct the life courses of about 40,000 Dutchmen born between 1863 and 1922. Data on aggregated level from 1859-1947, like population censuses and counts of labor force, were added to these data on individual level. Read more >>