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"...our results crucially demonstrate that in a few dozen of our locations, the observed values of CSRs appear to be too high to be solely attributable to random variation, infant mortality, or the quality of the census."

"Using a novel census dataset of historic Europe, this article provides evidence that some of these regional populations exhibited high child sex ratios, often well beyond levels that are usually considered “natural”. "

Issue 2, 2022 of @HistMethod presents "Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in historical census data" by @aj_szo , Bartosz Ogórek, Siegfried Gruber & Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia

Thank you for the follow as well!

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"In the current paper, we fill this gap by reconstructing the occupational structure at the district level, based on a recently-digitized register for 1939 and by linking this dataset with the population censuses of 1911 and 1921."

Issue 2, 2022 of @HistMethod presents "The regional occupational structure in interwar England and Wales" by Robin C. M. Philips, Matteo Calabrese, Robert Keenan & Bas van Leeuwen

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"Non-response derives from defective census design and administration. Transcription truncations are also evaluated... Guidance to researchers on weighting and robust estimation strategies are presented for dealing with these limitations."

Issue 2, 2022 of @HistMethod presents "British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis" by Robert J. Bennett & Leslie Hannah

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"This article provides a systematic method for collecting and analyzing the scientific production—in the form of indexed articles—of a broad and representative sample of authors who identify themselves as economic historians." The result is the relational database EconHist

Issue 1, 2022 of @HistMethod presents "EconHist: a relational database for analyzing the evolution of economic history (1980–2019)" by @AlvaroLaParra, Félix-Fernando Muñoz & Nadia Fernandez-de-Pinedo @Nadsfp

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Using historic newspapers, height & weight data & natural language processing to analyze tweets & Google searches about Thanksgiving, the authors find that "body weights and mean energy intake have steadily increased over time with the most rapid increases occurring since 1941

Issue 1, 2022, also includes "Overflowing tables: Changes in the energy intake and the social context of Thanksgiving in the United States" by Diana Thomas @MathArmy, G.Yoshitani, D.Turner, A.Hariharan, S.Bhutani, D.B.Allison, A.Moniz,S.Heymsfield, D.A.Schoeller,H.Hull & D.Fields

The co-authors on this publication were: @joepricebyu , Jacob Wellington, Kelly J Thompson, @HistDem & @CathyFitch

Using 1900-1920 census data from DC, Georgia, Michigan and New York, the authors argue "Black naming patterns existed in the antebellum era and...racial distinctiveness in naming patterns was an established practice well before Emancipation." @drlisadcook @jmparman @TrevonDLogan

Another article included in @HistMethod Issue 1, 2022, is "The antebellum roots of distinctively black names" by Lisa D. Cook, John Parman & Trevon Logan tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…