Norwegian Ecological Data, 1868-1903

This data collection provides economic, social, political, and demographic information on 431 communes (or electoral parishes) of Norway in the period 1868-1903. There are four parts to this collection. Part 1 contains information from the censuses of 1875, 1891, and 1900 and the electoral censuses of 1868 and 1876 on occupation, income distribution, taxation, age, household, total population by sex, place of birth, and religious affiliation, and information about political participation, such as the number of eligible voters, registered votes, and votes cast in the Storting (unicameral parliament) elections of 1868, 1870, 1873, 1876, 1879, 1882, 1885, 1888, 1891, 1894, 1897, 1900 and 1903. Part 2 provides information from the educational censuses of 1875 and 1885 on school enrollment, the number of male and female teachers, and school expenditures. Part 3 provides information on births, miscarriages, deaths, the number of live births from unwed mothers, the number of married couples, and the number of persons emigrating overseas and to the United States in 1868, 1875, 1891 to 1895, 1896 to 1900, and 1901 to 1905. Part 4 provides information on inter-communal communication and transportation, such as railways and steamships.