ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes the extent and nature of age-misreporting in the Mosaic data, currently one of the largest historical census microdata infrastructures for continental Europe. We use demographic measures known as the age heaping indexes to explore regional, periodic and sex-specific patterns of age misreporting across 115 Mosaic regional datafiles, from Catalonia to Moscow, during Europe's demographic ancien régime and thereafter. The paper's second significant contribution is the comparison of Mosaic-based results to those derived from two other big census data projects—IPUMS and NAPP. Beyond this exploratory data analysis, we also investigate possible sources of variation in age heaping across Mosaic data by examining how it relates to variability in socioeconomic, institutional, and environmental conditions. Overall, our systematic inquiry into quality of age reporting in Mosaic consolidates the project's potentially transformative role in comparative historical family demography and suggests some avenues for future research.

摘要

本文分析了马赛克数据中年龄错误报告的程度和性质，该数据是目前欧洲大陆最大的历史人口普查微数据基础设施之一。我们使用被称为年龄堆积指标，探索年龄误报的区域性，周期性和性别特定的模式跨越115个马赛克区域数据文件，从加泰罗尼亚莫斯科人口的措施，在欧洲的人口旧制度之后。论文的第二个重要贡献是将基于马赛克的结果与来自其他两个大型人口普查数据项目IPUMS和NAPP的结果进行了比较。除了这种探索性数据分析之外，我们还通过检查镶嵌数据与社会经济，制度和环境条件的可变性之间的关系，来研究其年龄堆积变化的可能来源。总体而言，我们对Mosaic中年龄报告质量的系统研究巩固了该项目在比较历史家庭人口统计中的潜在变革作用，并为将来的研究提供了一些途径。