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Linking Scottish vital event records using family groups
Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2019-03-25 , DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2019.1571466
Özgür Akgün 1 , Alan Dearle 1 , Graham Kirby 1 , Eilidh Garrett 2 , Tom Dalton 1 , Peter Christen 3 , Chris Dibben 4 , Lee Williamson 4
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Abstract The reconstitution of populations through linkage of historical records is a powerful approach to generate longitudinal historical microdata resources of interest to researchers in various fields. Here we consider automated linking of the vital events recorded in the civil registers of birth, death and marriage compiled in Scotland, to bring together the various records associated with the demographic events in the life course of each individual in the population. From the histories, the genealogical structure of the population can then be built up. Rather than apply standard linkage techniques to link the individuals on the available certificates, we explore an alternative approach, inspired by the family reconstitution techniques adopted by historical demographers, in which the births of siblings are first linked to form family groups, after which intergenerational links between families can be established. We report a small-scale evaluation of this approach, using two district-level data sets from Scotland in the late nineteenth century, for which sibling links have already been created by demographers. We show that quality measures of up to 83% can be achieved on these data sets (using F-Measure, a combination of precision and recall). In the future, we intend to compare the results with a standard linkage approach and to investigate how these various methods may be used in a project which aims to link the entire Scottish population from 1856 to 1973.

中文翻译:

使用家庭组链接苏格兰生命事件记录

摘要 通过历史记录的关联来重构种群是生成各个领域研究人员感兴趣的纵向历史微数据资源的有力方法。在这里,我们考虑自动链接苏格兰编制的出生、死亡和婚姻民事登记册中记录的重要事件,以汇集与人口中每个人生命历程中的人口事件相关的各种记录。然后可以从历史中建立人口的谱系结构。我们没有应用标准的链接技术来链接可用证书上的个人,而是探索了一种替代方法,其灵感来自历史人口学家采用的家庭重组技术,其中兄弟姐妹的出生首先被联系起来形成家庭群体,之后,可以建立家庭之间的代际联系。我们报告了对这种方法的小规模评估,使用了 19 世纪后期来自苏格兰的两个地区级数据集,人口统计学家已经为此创建了兄弟链接。我们表明,在这些数据集上可以实现高达 83% 的质量测量(使用 F-Measure,结合了精度和召回率)。将来,我们打算将结果与标准链接方法进行比较,并研究如何在一个旨在链接 1856 年至 1973 年整个苏格兰人口的项目中使用这些不同的方法。人口统计学家已经为其创建了兄弟链接。我们表明,在这些数据集上可以实现高达 83% 的质量测量(使用 F-Measure,结合了精度和召回率)。将来,我们打算将结果与标准链接方法进行比较,并研究如何在一个旨在链接 1856 年至 1973 年整个苏格兰人口的项目中使用这些不同的方法。人口统计学家已经为其创建了兄弟链接。我们表明,在这些数据集上可以实现高达 83% 的质量测量(使用 F-Measure,结合了精度和召回率)。将来,我们打算将结果与标准链接方法进行比较,并研究如何在一个旨在链接 1856 年至 1973 年整个苏格兰人口的项目中使用这些不同的方法。
更新日期:2019-03-25
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