Parish Register Aggregate Analysis 1538-1839 Restructured: Baptisms, Burials and Marriages from 404 English Parishes

<p><span>This </span>collection <span>represents the data used to reconstruct the pre-Census population history of England by Wrigley and Schofield, in restructured form. It consists of counts of parish register events from 404 English sample parishes. These data were originally used to estimate national totals of births, deaths and marriages. From these population growth rates were derived and hence the overall English population in each year between 1539 and 1836, but these data are also relevant for local studies of particular parishes or regions, and for studies of mortality variations and crises, which was the purpose for which this restructuring was undertaken. This data collection contains tab-delimited text files of monthly and annual historical counts of baptisms, marriages and burials from parish registers in 404 English parishes, with missing data interpolated, for varying coverage periods in each parish, including a core period of 1662 to 1811.</span></p><p><span>Volunteer local historians counted events from accessible parish registers with apparently good coverage, from a list distributed by Tony Wrigley at CAMPOP. Counts were recorded on paper pro formas. These were digitised many years ago by CAMPOP into the Population History of England database. Quality checking of count accuracy per volunteer was performed by Roger Schofield and inaccurate contributions discarded. In their current restructured form these files were derived by Gill Newton at CAMPOP from the Population History of England database.<br></span></p>

本数据集为Wrigley与Schofield用于重构英格兰人口普查前人口历史的重构版数据。其包含来自404个英格兰样本教区的教区登记事件计数，原始用途为估算全国出生、死亡与婚姻总人数，借此推导人口增长率，进而得到1539年至1836年间各年度的英格兰总人口规模。不过此类数据也可应用于特定教区或区域的本地研究，以及死亡率变化与危机相关研究——这也是本次数据重构的初衷。本数据集包含制表符分隔的文本文件，涵盖404个英格兰教区教区登记册中每月及每年的洗礼、婚姻与安葬历史计数，已对缺失数据进行插值补全；各教区的统计覆盖时段存在差异，其中核心覆盖时段为1662年至1811年。

志愿者地方史研究者依据CAMPOP的Tony Wrigley分发的清单，对覆盖情况良好的可获取教区登记册中的事件进行计数，并将结果记录于纸质格式表单。多年前，CAMPOP已将此类数据数字化并整合至《英格兰人口史》数据库中。Roger Schofield针对每位志愿者的计数准确性开展了质量核验，并剔除了不准确的上报数据。当前的重构版文件由CAMPOP的Gill Newton基于《英格兰人口史》数据库衍生而来。