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Description

NAMEFRST is an alphabetic variable giving a person's full first name. It will primarily be of use to researchers linking the NAPP census data to other sources of demographic data, or researchers whose research topic involves naming patterns. Because of the length of this variable (32 columns), and the size of the dataset other researchers should not select this variable.

Comparability

The collection of names was substantially similar in all NAPP censuses. British, Canadian and United States instructions to enumerators indicated that the surname was to be written before the first name, whereas Norwegian and the Icelandic 1801 instructions gave no direction in this regard. The Icelandic 1901 instructions direct the enumerator to list the first and last names in separate columns.

Canada
Not all cases have first and last names in the 1871 Canadian census.

Great Britain
In the British 1881 census fields with "@@@" denote blank fields. Residents of some institutions may have only an initial given as their surname.

Iceland
Similar to the Norwegian censuses, Icelandic names in the 1801 census have been truncated to 16 characters. Fields with "!!" denote blank fields. In the 1901 census children who have not yet been given a name are listed as "boy" or "girl".

Norway
Norwegian names have been truncated to 16 characters. Fields with "!!" denote blank fields.

Universe

Codes

This is a 32-character string variable.

Availability

• Canada: 1852, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901
• Great Britain: 1851, 1881, 1881
• Iceland: 1801, 1901
• Mecklenburg: 1819
• Norway: 1801, 1865, 1875, 1900
• Sweden: 1900
• United States: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1880, 1900, 1910