This summary update of subscription and free websites booked on the HFL Delicious pages focuses on historical statistics, esp. for British and European countries such as Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden.
Subscription databases available to Oxford users:
Demographic Yearbook 1948-1997
Fifty years of data for 229 countries/areas from 1948 to 1997 covering:
World summary
*Population and vital statistics summary
*Population by sex, urban population and intercensal rate of increase
*Population by age and sex; derived measures of fertility
Fertility
*Live births by age of mother
*Live birth rates specific for age of mother
*Female population by age and number of children born alive
*Female population by age and number of children living
Mortality
*Expectation of life at exact ages
*Deaths by age and sex
*Death rates specific for age and sex
Nuptiality and divorce
*Population by age, sex and marital status, each census.
Elections in Western Europe since 1815
This CD-ROM contains the election results of 18 Western European countries from the nineteenth century until the present time (the last published election). The earliest election collected is the 1815 Norwegian election. Results have been collected at the level of the single constituencies. The information collected concerns the electorate, actual voters, and votes for single parties or candidates and is available in absolute figures and percentages (percentage distribution of votes by parties and percentage distribution of party votes by constituencies).
Historical Statistics of the United States
Historical Statistics of the United States has long been the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history. It has not been revised, however, since the Bicentennial Edition, which was published in 1975 and provided data through 1970. The period since then has witnessed an explosion of quantitative scholarship and the general expansion of the government’s statistical record keeping. By one estimate, more than three fourths of the data output of the U.S. government and more than 80 percent of the historical data series generated by scholars have been produced since 1970. No subject area and few data series have remained untouched by this phenomenal growth of the American quantitative record.
The revised, updated, and expanded Millennial Edition contains considerably more information than its immediate predecessor: five volumes rather than two, more than twice as many pages of data and documentation, and a tripling of the number of data series: 37,339 in the new edition. This expansion occurred along several dimensions. Most series from the previous edition were extended by roughly thirty years, and the coverage of most topics was enhanced. More than a dozen new topics were added: American Indians, slavery, outlying areas, poverty, non-profit organizations, and the Confederate States of America, to list a few examples. Finally, the chapters in the new edition are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, provide a guide to the sources, and offer expert advice on the reliability of the data and the limits that might be placed on their interpretation.
Statistical Accounts of Scotland, The (1791-1845)
The ‘New’ or ‘Second’ Statistical Account was suggested to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1832 by the Committee of the Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy. Broadly, the ‘New’ Statistical Account followed the structure of the ‘Old’, but it also differed in that it included maps of the counties, and while the parish reports in the ‘Old’ were mostly prepared by the parish ministers, the ‘New’ Statistical Account also included contributions from other local figures such as schoolmasters and doctors. It was mostly written in the 1830s and published in fifty-two quarterly parts from 1834, culminating in being issued in 15 vol. in 1845. When it was published, the Committee presented it as ‘in great measure, the Statistical Account of a new country’.
Together, the Statistical Accounts provide vitally important reference sources for a critical half century spanning the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. They are locally created and factually based; the two Accounts allow comparisons to be made parish by parish at a time of rapid and significant change; and they offer a unique reference and research source for the study of local and national life in Scotland in this period.
Free web resources
Statistik-Links
A Vision of Britain through Time
Histpop – The Online Historical Population Reports Website
Census of Ireland 1901-11
Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration (DIPPAM)
EPPI is a database of 15,000 official publications relating to all aspects of Irish affairs during the period of the Union, including bills, reports, commisions of inquiry, and the published census reports. It is a rich source for the social history of Ireland, as well as for statistics relating to population, emigration and other subjects. The IED is a virtual library of 33K+ emigration-related primary sources, principally letters to and from emigrants. It covers a wide time period, but with a concentration on the period between c.1780 and c.1920. VMR comprises over 90 life-narrative interviews conducted with returned and non-returned migrants from Ulster.
Allen – Unger Global Commodity Prices Database
The Database presents price data, published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in machine-readable form. The original goal was to examine changes in prices and their relation to international trade in early modern Europe. Price series were then expanded from just staple grains and beyond a limited number of years to the entire period ranging from the earliest known series from the High Middle Ages and down to 1914. The geographical range as well as that of commodities continues to expand with continued research and coding of published data.
Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration (DIPPAM)
Data Library (Nuffield College Library, Oxford)
The purpose of Nuffield’s Data Library is to store and maintain many of the important socio-economic datasets that are available for further analysis, and to facilitate access to the wealth of data that these contain.
Europa – Gateway to the European Union
Global Price and Income History Group – Europe
List of Datafiles of Historical Prices and Wages (International Institute of Social History)
Dutch Censuses 1795-1971 (Volkstellingen)
Since 1997, the digitization of the data was accomplished during the course of three projects: Dutch Census Digitization 1795-1971, Dutch Census Data and Life Courses in Context. As a result of these three projects over 40,000 record pages were made digitally available to the public. [EHPS]
Dutch National accounts, 1800-1914.
Historical Monetary Statistics of Sweden 1668-2008 (Historisk monetär statistik i Sverige 1668-2008)/
Centre de Données Socio-Politiques CDSP
Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)
L’Enquête agricole (1852)
Enquête postale de 1848, L’
La Statistique Générale de la France
Les recensements de 1901 à 1921.
Les mouvements de la population de 1836 à 1925.
L’enseignement primaire et secondaire de 1865 à 1906.
La statistique industrielle de 1861 à 1896.
Les recensements de 1851 à 1921.
Les mouvements de la population de 1800 à 1925.
L’enseignement primaire de 1829 à 1897.
Territoire et population de 1800 à 1890.
