Historical Population Database of Transylvania Sources, Particularities, Challenges, and Early Findings

Historical demography began its journey in Romania in the interwar period and grew in the shadow of other sciences. Since the 1960s, case studies and microlevel analyses based on the Henry and Fleury method of family reconstitution have enriched the Romanian historical demography. Only recently this...

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Published inSowing p. 259
Main Authors Luminița Dumănescu, Mihaela Hărăgus, Angela Lumezeanu, Elena Crinela Holom, Nicoleta Hegedűs, Daniela Mârza, Diana Covaci, Ioan Bolovan
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Radboud University Press 29.08.2023
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Summary:Historical demography began its journey in Romania in the interwar period and grew in the shadow of other sciences. Since the 1960s, case studies and microlevel analyses based on the Henry and Fleury method of family reconstitution have enriched the Romanian historical demography. Only recently this research has developed a population database constructed according to the most recent methodological principles (Mandemakers & Dillon, 2004) and aiming for full compatibility with the latest version of the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS; Alter & Mandemakers, 2014). The Historical Population Database of Transylvania (HPDT) was developed by the Centre for Population Studies in Cluj-Napoca. Data entry
DOI:10.2307/jj.6445824.16