Författare: Elisabeth Engberg

On Wednesday, April 5, there may be short-term downtime.

Due to a technical issue, data from the Swedish Death Index can at present not be retrieved and downloaded in SwedPop. The problem has been identified and will be remedied as soon as possible.

New population data is now made available for research by the national infrastructure SwedPop adding further censuses and including data from the Swedish Death Index.   Previously a census from 1880 was available via the extract tool, now after intensive work three more censuses have been added. With the new censuses from 1890, 1900 and…

During the period 20/6 – 1/7 it will not be possible to extract data from SWEDPOP. This is because we will update the system and add more data. We will come back soon with a description of the data that will be added.

On Thursday 10 February, upgrades will be made to the website. This may mean that the website will be unavailable for short periods of the day.

Renewed support from the Swedish Research Council 2023-2026 Recently the Swedish Research Council announced that SwedPop was one of the research infrastructures that received renewed support within the call Research infrastructure of national interest. The grant of SEK 29,234,000 to SwedPop for the period 2023-2026 is happy news for the project and a confirmation of…

Today we are happy to announce the first release of SwedPop data. We are launching a beta version of the SwedPop data extraction tool where harmonized historical population data for analysis can be downloaded free of charge. The first data release includes data from the Demographic Data Base (DDB), Umeå University, the Scanian Economic Demographic…

SwedPop Data release approaching Very soon an important milestone for the SwedPop-infrastructure will be reached, when SwedPop data extraction tool is launched on this site. From next week it will be possible to download harmonised population data from the Demographic Data Base, SEDD and the National Archives along with metadata and documentation. More details will…

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the new website for SwedPop – Swedish Historical Population Databases for Research. The aim of SwedPop is to increase the accessibility of historical individual-level population data from the rich Swedish registers. At swedpop.se you can find information about the SwedPop data, along with metadata and documentation. Shortly…