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The HSN is one of the participants in the collaboratory Historical Life Courses aiming to bring together the main users, developers and administrators of databases with historical life courses.
Much historical demographic research concerning the Netherlands is carried out at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). Historical data can also be found here.
The International Microdata Access Group (IMAG) was formed to foster the international collaboration of researchers who work with historical and contemporary microdata in order to facilitate transnational comparative research.
The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) will create a harmonized international database of complete count censuses of Canada, Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI) is a pan-Canadian and interdisciplinary effort to construct interrelated databases centered on the census
enumerations for 1911, 1921, 1931, 1941 and 1951.
The Demographic Data Base (DDB) of the Umea University (Sweden) is responsible for ensuring that historical data from parish registers and parish statistics are easily available for researchers from both Sweden and abroad. DDB's research activities include method development, service for researchers, provision of guest research posts, seminars, conferences etc.
The Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) develops and maintains a database with longitudinal data on 9.500 persons born between 1923 and 1985, including life history information on the siblings and parents of the original respondents.
For a general overview of databases see the website of the International Committee for Historical Demography (ICHD). The ICHD associates scientists of different nationalities, whose aim is to encourage the study of the history of population and of human society in general, and to further scientific exchange between researchers.
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