Parish and County level demographic data from Iceland during the Lakagígar eruption 1783

DOI

This data set is a collection of 18th century demographic data, used to study the impact of the 1783 volcanic eruption of the Lakagígar fissure.

The data sets contains 1) extracts from surviving parish registries preserved at the National Archive of Iceland (NAI) 2) Birth and Death data on county level, 1769-1789 3) Population data from the census of 1769

Details about the sources are presented underneath the data tables.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/9YT5BK
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/9YT5BK
Provenance
Creator Wieners, Claudia ORCID logo; Hálfdanarson, Guðmundur ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Wieners, Claudia
Publication Year 2023
Rights CC-BY-4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess false
Contact Wieners, Claudia (Utrecht University)
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/rtf; application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet; application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Size 5561; 982373; 903153
Version 1.0
Discipline Earth and Environmental Science; Environmental Research; Geosciences; Natural Sciences