A Note on the UK Local BMD
| Autor: | Stephen J. Bush |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Names, Vol 72, Iss 2 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0027-7738 1756-2279 |
| DOI: | 10.5195/names.2024.2543 |
| Popis: | Data from the UK Local BMD, a volunteer project to transcribe the birth, marriage and death records of England and Wales, is a rare onomastic resource, being one of the few public datasets to contain full names. However, it has yet to be presented in a form amenable to large-scale analysis. This article processes 25,213,860 birth and 9,887,244 death records—collectively representing 204,427 names across 289 years–into a resource for community use. The data are presented alongside a number of summary statistics and both internal and external validation of its integrity. The data, along with the code used to generate it, are available at http://www.github.com/sjbush/uk_bmd for non-commercial research purposes. |
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