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Historical home-leaving patterns investigated through combined SwedPop data
A new article published in The History of the Family combines data from different Swedpop databases to investigate how the age of leaving the parental home developed in Sweden, 1830-1959.
Data from The Demographic Data Base (DDB) and The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) were combined and harmonized in a recent article on the development of home leaving age in Sweden during a period of more than a century. The article is a collaboration between researchers at Lund University (Martin Dribe), University of Gothenburg (Christer Lundh), and Umeå University (Glenn Sandström and Samuel Sundvall).
The high-quality individual-level data from the databases allows general trends in home-leaving patterns to be examined and compared between two regions of different economic foundations in Sweden, Scania to the south and Västerbotten to the north. The result shows that the age at leaving the parental home was initially low but rose significantly in both regions during industrialization, indicating a shift in the models governing home leaving. From a pre-industrial model shaped by the life-cycle service system to an industrial model where age at marriage became the main determinant of home leaving.
About the publication:
Samuel Sundvall, Christer Lundh, Martin Dribe & Glenn Sandström (2023) Models of leaving home: patterns and trends in Sweden, 1830–1959, The History of the Family, DOI: 10.1080/1081602X.2023.2222111
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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.
SwedPop has been significantly expanded
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 1910, SwedPop now makes data from 4 censuses available. The expansion from one to four censuses significantly strengthens the data available to researchers.
SwedPop has been further expanded with data from the Svenska dödboken, which can provide information on everyone who died in Sweden between 1832 and 2021.
– These data are of great importance to many areas of research and it is very gratifying to be able to make them available in this way. SwedPop is a national infrastructure that aims to make data available for research, and the data we present is designed to enable researchers to analyse it. All data is therefore pseudonymised,” says Elisabeth Engberg, head of the infrastructure.
Before new data can be added and used by researchers, a lot of work is done to improve the quality of the data. Among other things, data from different databases need to be harmonised so that they can be used together. This means ensuring that everything is coded in the same way. To make this possible, the partners in SwedPop have developed standard codes that enable researchers to use data from several different Swedish databases for comparative studies. This has not previously been possible. The data that is now made available to researchers is therefore unique.
In the future, more data will be added and linked within SwedPop. In 2023, data from the Rotemannen database will be made available. The database covers the population of Stockholm between 1878-1926.
– There is a continuous effort to develop the infrastructure and increase the amount of data made available through SwedPop, says Maria Larsson, assistant head of unit, Demographic Data Base.
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