Ruggles Steven, Roberts Evan, Sarkar Sula, Sobek Matthew
Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota.
Hist Methods. 2011 Jan 1;44(1):1-6. doi: 10.1080/01615440.2010.515377.
The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) is a massive database of historical census microdata from European and North American countries. The backbone of the project is the unique collection of completely digitized censuses providing information on the entire enumerated populations of each country. In addition, for some countries, the NAPP includes sample data from surrounding census years. In this article, the authors provide a brief history of the project, describe their progress to data and plans for the future, and discuss some potential implications of this unique data resource for social and economic research.
北大西洋人口项目(NAPP)是一个包含欧洲和北美国家历史人口普查微观数据的大型数据库。该项目的核心是独特收集的完全数字化的人口普查数据,这些数据提供了每个国家全部被普查人口的信息。此外,对于一些国家,NAPP还包括周边普查年份的样本数据。在本文中,作者介绍了该项目的简要历史,描述了他们在数据方面取得的进展以及未来计划,并讨论了这一独特数据资源对社会和经济研究的一些潜在影响。