Abstract

The 1831 census database is the newest addition to the series of 19th century Canadian census microdata available for social science research, thanks to a collaboration between the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) and FamilySearch. This article presents the work undertaken to prepare this database and the main challenges encountered in the course of this work. While the data extracted from the 1831 census are an invaluable tool for demographic research, particularly on account of the agricultural and industrial questions included in this census, cleaning these data have required particular attention to the age-sex-marital status tallies of the household co-residents. Additional efforts were devoted to integrating missing data for Montréal’s Notre-Dame parish and for other parishes.

摘要

1831年的人口普查数据库是对19世纪加拿大人口普查微数据系列的最新添加，可用于社会科学研究，这要归功于历史研究计划（PRDH）和FamilySearch的合作。本文介绍了准备数据库的工作以及在此过程中遇到的主要挑战。虽然从1831年的人口普查中提取的数据是进行人口统计研究的宝贵工具，尤其是考虑到该普查中包含的农业和工业问题，但清理这些数据需要特别注意家庭成员的年龄-性别-婚姻状况统计数据-居民。为了整合蒙特利尔圣母院和其他教区的缺失数据，我们付出了额外的努力。