Linking Scottish vital event records using family groups
| Autor: | Eilidh Garrett, Chris Dibben, Lee Williamson, Peter Christen, Özgür Akgün, Thomas Stanley Dalton, Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Economic & Social Research Council, University of St Andrews. School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews. Office of the Principal |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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QA75
History 060106 history of social sciences QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Microdata (statistics) C Auxiliary sciences of history (General) 060104 history Record linkage C1 Group linkage Population reconstruction Information system 0601 history and archaeology Historical record Event (probability theory) Linkage (software) Digitising Scotland Linkage methods DAS 06 humanities and the arts Scottish vital event records Genealogy Geography Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Akgün, Ö, Dearle, A, Kirby, G, Garrett, E, Dalton, T, Christen, P, Dibben, C & Williamson, L 2019, ' Linking Scottish vital event records using family groups ', Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, pp. 1-17 . https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2019.1571466 |
| ISSN: | 1940-1906 0161-5440 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01615440.2019.1571466 |
| Popis: | Funding: This work was supported by ESRC Grants ES/K00574X/2 “Digitising Scotland” and ES/L007487/1 “Administrative Data Research Centre – Scotland.” The reconstitution of populations through linkage of historical records is a powerful approach to generate longitudinal historical microdata resources of interest to researchers in various fields. Here we consider automated linking of the vital events recorded in the civil registers of birth, death and marriage compiled in Scotland, to bring together the various records associated with the demographic events in the life course of each individual in the population. From the histories, the genealogical structure of the population can then be built up. Rather than apply standard linkage techniques to link the individuals on the available certificates, we explore an alternative approach, inspired by the family reconstitution techniques adopted by historical demographers, in which the births of siblings are first linked to form family groups, after which intergenerational links between families can be established. We report a small-scale evaluation of this approach, using two district-level data sets from Scotland in the late nineteenth century, for which sibling links have already been created by demographers. We show that quality measures of up to 83% can be achieved on these data sets (using F-Measure, a combination of precision and recall). In the future, we intend to compare the results with a standard linkage approach and to investigate how these various methods may be used in a project which aims to link the entire Scottish population from 1856 to 1973. Postprint |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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