Demographic outcomes during colonisation: Migration and mortality among indigenous and non-indigenous populations in nineteenth-century Sweden

Vikström, Lotta; Marklund, Emil; Sandström, Glenn

doi:10.1163/23519924-00201006

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“…Migration and mortality have also been a recurrent theme in research using DDB data. Vikström, Marklund, and Sandström (2016) studied the demographic outcomes of colonisation in regions with a Sámi population, and found the Sámi to be a highly vulnerable group. The death rates in this group were higher, and the competition for land made migration rates high.…”

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Edvinsson¹,

Engberg²

2020

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The Demographic Data Base (DDB) at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University has since the 1970s been building longitudinal population databases and disseminating data for research. The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use the data. A countless number of customised datasets have been prepared and distributed to researchers in Sweden and abroad and to date, the research has resulted in more than a thousand published scientific reports, books, and articles within a broad range of academic fields. While there has long been a clear predominance of research within the humanities and social sciences, it has always been used for research in other fields as well, for example medicine. In this article, we first give a brief presentation of the DDB and its history, characteristics, and development from the 1970s to the present. It includes an overview of the research based on the DDB databases, with a focus on the databases POPUM and POPLINK with individual-level data. A number of major traits of the research from 1973 to now have been outlined, showing the breadth of the research and highlighting some major contributions, with a focus on work that would have been very difficult to perform without data from the DDB.

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Section: Marriage Patterns and Family Structurementioning

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Edvinsson¹,

Engberg²

2020

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“…They have proven useful to many historians in Sweden and abroad, some of whom, including ourselves, conduct event history analysis (e.g. Haage, Häggström Lundevaller & Vikström 2016;Haage, Vikström & Häggström Lundevaller 2017;Edvinsson & Lindkvist 2011;Kolk 2011;Vikström 2003Vikström , 2011Vikström, Marklund & Sandström 2016). That these registers also provide good quality data for use of sequence analysis is detailed further below.…”

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Sequence Analysis of How Disability Influenced Life Trajectories in a Past Population from the Nineteenth-Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden

Vikström¹,

Haage²,

Lundevaller³

2017

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Historically, little is known about whether and to what extent disabled people found work and formed families. To fill this gap, this study analyses the life course trajectories of both disabled and non-disabled individuals, between the ages of 15 and 33, from the Sundsvall region in Sweden during the nineteenth century. Having access to micro-data that report disabilities in a population of 8,874 individuals from the parish registers digitised by the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, we employ sequence analysis on a series of events that are expected to occur in life of young adults: getting a job, marrying and becoming a parent, while also taking into account out-migration and death. Through this method we obtain a holistic picture of the life course of disabled people. Main findings show that their trajectories did not include work or family to the same extent as those of non-disabled people. Secondary findings concerning migration and mortality indicate that the disabled rarely out-migrated from the region, and they suffered from premature deaths. To our knowledge this is the first study to employ sequence analysis on a substantially large number of cases to provide demographic evidence of how disability shaped human trajectories in the past during an extended period of life. Accordingly, we detail our motivation for this method, describe our analytical approach, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with sequence analysis for our case study.

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Demographic outcomes during colonisation: Migration and mortality among indigenous and non-indigenous populations in nineteenth-century Sweden

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Sequence Analysis of How Disability Influenced Life Trajectories in a Past Population from the Nineteenth-Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden

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