Courland Census Microdata, 1803–1804

The database contains information on individuals coded from the 1803-1804 census lists of six towns in Courland. This cross-sectional data documents social, demographic and economic life in the multinational Baltic urban millieu. The original documents are kept at the Herder Institute in Marburg and at the Latvian State Historical Archives in Rīga. The data is provided as a comma separated CSV UTF-8 file along with a readme file. The database consists of 39 variables. First 30 variables adhere to coding standards defined in Siegfried Gruber's "Mosaic data files: Documentation of harmonized variables, Version 1.9 Mosaic 1.9" (https://assets.ipums.org/_files/mosaic/mosaic_data_files_harmonized_variables_version_1.9.pdf). Additional variables are: archive Data type: string. Name of the archives in which the source is held. LVVA for Latvian State Historical Archives. geonameid Data type: integer. Unique code of the place according to the Geonames gazetteer (see http://geonames.org). illness_or Data type: string. Diseases and disabilities of a person if specified in the source. notes Data type: string. Additional notes provided in the source. place_document Data type: string. German name of the place where a person was enumerated. place_origin Data type: string. Place of origin of a person as indicated in the source. ref_no Data type: string. Call number of the source. relig_or Data type: string. "Nationality" in the original wording. sheet_no Data type: string. Sheet number in the archival file in which the record was registered.