Abstract
This chapter describes the Great Britain Historical GIS, which developed in collaboration with the research into the 1881 British census described elsewhere in this volume. Such a project could not be justified simply to map a single source, even one as large as the 1881 microdata. We had to offer a more general solution to the mapping needs of British historical demographers, and we had a research agenda of our own--to identify long-run trends from macrodata, meaning tables from the published census reports since 1801. These other goals necessitated constructing a detailed record of changing geographies.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Handbook of Historical Microdata for Population Research |
| Editors | P. Hall, R. McCaa, G. Thorvaldsen |
| Place of Publication | Minneapolis |
| Publisher | Minnesota Population Center |
| Pages | 319-333 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0970341008 |
| Publication status | Published - 2000 |