Female Demographic Biographies: Wald parish, 1880-1938

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Introduction

All baptisms, marriages and burials from 1880 to 1938; reconstructing female demographic life-courses (own baptism, baptisms of own children, own marriage, own burial) by record linkage; complete data entry; church books.

Shortname

FDB-Wald

IDS compatible

Period

1880 - 1938

Territory

Wald parish (Catholic and Lutheran part)

Category

Longitudinal

Contact information

Organisation

Department for Economic, Social and Business History

Web Address

http://wirtschaftsgeschichte.uni-graz.at/

Location

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Postal Address

Universitätsstraße 15/E/2, 8010 Graz

Contact Persons

Peter Teibenbacher

peter.teibenbacher@uni-graz.at

Citation

Peter Teibenbacher: FDB-Wald

Questionnaire
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The questionnaire was submitted on 16 June 2015 by Peter Teibenbacher.

Scope / Status

Current status

Still under construction, planned to complete in 2016. Future plan is to transform the database into IDS-format.

Keywords

demography, church register, life course

Sources

From year	End year	Source	PDF
1880	1938	Baptisms	PDF
1880	1938	Marriages from church registers	PDF
1880	1938	Burials	PDF
1880	1938	Population registers ( maintained by church or state)	PDF

Collection procedure

• The data was collected and transcribed in 1999-2000. • Data collection method: digital entry, transcription by individuals. • Purpose of the transcription: research. • The checking of the transcription was done in 2003-2006 by proofreading. • Control methods by researcher: done. • Data collection staff: student.

Observations

Units of observation

Unit of observation	Explanation	Number
Individuals		7,315
Married couples		1,132
Families	Married or non-married women with one child at least is defined a family.	899

Are there any related observations that are not included in the database?

Population number per year.

How do the units of observation enter observation?

• Individuals: Immediately at baptism, marriage or burial.

How do the units of observation leave observation?

• Individuals: After entry to burials; if a child of the person deceased is marrying later on, this person is named as a bride’s or groom’s mother or father; if a child of the person deceased is born later on, the person is named as a father or mother

Dates estimated

Yes.

Are some entry or exit dates unknown?

Yes, birth-giving women as born earlier to 1880.

Can observations be linked to geographic locations?

Are the dates and locations of movements within the observation area recorded?

Are all individuals who lived in the households of sample members recorded?

Linkage

• Which sources and units of observation have been linked? - Female births, baptisms, marriages, burials. • Documentation of linking: No, manually, machine-aided, SPSS. • The rules of linking: First and last names, maiden names, date of birth, dates of baptisms, date of marriage of a woman. • How each reconstructed person is traceable to the original sources /transcribed data? - By date of birth, baptism of a child, marriage, death. • How is linkage represented in the database? - Universal identification code for each different person; universal identification code for each family; different codes for the role in a demographic event (baptised child, bride/groom, buried, father or mother). • Linkage percentage: 100% • Quality of linkage (own evaluation): Very well.

Variables

Events

Variables

On individuals: - Baptisms: first and last name of child, confession of child, birth date of child, marital status of child, first and last names and occupation of parents; if illegitimately born, mostly name and occupation of mother (maiden name) only. - Marriages: first and last names of bride (maiden name) and groom, their marital status, their confession, their age, their occupation, first and last names and occupation of parents. - Burial: first and last name of deceased person, it’s occupation, age of death, cause of death.

Data representation

SPSS

Kinship relations

Recording

Not yet.

Depth of information

Actually not known.

Publications

2. Main or exemplary publications on research based on the database

Unger, K. (2002). Die Entwicklung der Fertilität im Modernisierungsprozess am Beispiel der Pfarre Wald am Schoberpass in der Steiermark 1880 – 1938. Graz: Master Thesis.
Teibenbacher, P. (2010). Fertility decline, illegitimacy, and denomination – the demographic story of the Wald parish between 1880 and 1938. In: A.P. Arrizabalaga, I. Bolovan, M. Eppel, J. Kok, M.L. Nagata (Eds.). Many paths to Happiness. Studies in Population and Family History. A Festschrift for Antoinette Fauve-Chaumoix (pp. 238-260). Amsterdam: Aksant.
Teibenbacher, P. (2004). Der erste demografische Übergang in der Steiermark (1880-1938). Dargestellt am Mikrokosmos einer Pfarre. In: St. Karner (Ed.), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Festschrift für G.Schöpfer (pp. 87-106). Graz: Leykam.

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