Data: Citation

All registered users are granted a limited license to use and distribute this documentation and to use the accompanying data, subject to the following conditions:

  • The data may not be redistributed.
  • Publications and research reports based on the database must cite it appropriately.

Please include the general citation for the North Atlantic Population Project and a citation for each of the specific datasets you use, selecting from the following citations as appropriate:

Minnesota Population Center. North Atlantic Population Project: Complete Count Microdata. Version 2.0 [Machine-readable database]. Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center, 2008.

Canada 1871 Gordon Darroch and Michael Ornstein, Canadian Historical Social Mobility Project (1871 file) [computer file]. Toronto, Ontario: York Institute for Social Research and Department of Sociology, York University, 1979.
Canada 1881 Lisa Dillon, The 1881 Canadian Census Project, the North Atlantic Population Project and the Minnesota Population Center.  (version 2.0).  Montréal, QC: Département de Démographie, Université de Montréal [distributor], 2008.
Canada 1901The National Sample of the 1901 Census of Canada, Canadian Families Project, University of Victoria, [web.uvic.ca], 2002.

Great Britain 1851 K. Schürer and M. Woollard, National Sample from the 1851 Census of Great Britain [computer file], Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 2008.
Great Britain 1881 K. Schürer and M. Woollard, National Sample from the 1881 Census of Great Britain [computer file], Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 2003.

Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1819 Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin (Deutschland), Bestand 2.21-4/4 Volkszählung. Population History (MPIDR), Department of Multimedia and Data Processing, University of Rostock, Landeshauptarchiv (State Main Archive) Schwerin.

Norway 1865 and 1900 The Digital Archive (The National Archive), The Norwegian Historical Data Centre (University of Tromsø) and the Minnesota Population Center.  Version 2.0, Bergen, Oslo, Tromsø, Minneapolis 2008.
Norway 1875 The Norwegian Historical Data Centre (University of Tromsø) and the Minnesota Population Center.  Version 2.0, Tromsø, Minneapolis 2008.

Sweden 1900 The Swedish National Archives, Umeå University, and the Minnesota Population Center. Version 1.0, Stockholm, Umeå, Minneapolis. 2008 Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center [distributor], 2008.

All United States datasets IPUMS-USA. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: Version 5.0 [Machine-readable database]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2010.


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