Spatial frameworks for historical censuses: the Great Britain Historical GIS

I. Gregory; Humphrey Southall

Spatial frameworks for historical censuses: the Great Britain Historical GIS

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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
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

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Spatial frameworks for historical censuses: the Great Britain Historical GIS. / Gregory, I.; Southall, Humphrey.
Handbook of Historical Microdata for Population Research. ed. / P. Hall; R. McCaa; G. Thorvaldsen. Minneapolis: Minnesota Population Center, 2000. p. 319-333.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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Spatial frameworks for historical censuses: the Great Britain Historical GIS

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