Record linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel

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dc.contributor.authorRijpma, Aukeen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCilliers, Jeanneen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorFourie, Johanen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-24T07:28:05Z
dc.date.available2022-08-24T07:28:05Z
dc.date.issued2019-02
dc.descriptionCITATION: Rijpma, A., Cilliers, J. & Fourie, J. 2020. Record linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 53(2):112-129. doi:10.1080/01615440.2018.1517030
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/vhim20
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we describe the record linkage procedure to create a panel from Cape Colony census returns, or opgaafrolle, for 1787–1828, a dataset of 42,354 household-level observations. Based on a subset of manually linked records, we first evaluate statistical models and deterministic algorithms to best identify and match households over time. By using household-level characteristics in the linking process and near-annual data, we are able to create high-quality links for 84% of the dataset. We compare basic analyses on the linked panel dataset to the original cross-sectional data, evaluate the feasibility of the strategy when linking to supplementary sources, and discuss the scalability of our approach to the full Cape panel.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01615440.2018.1517030
dc.description.versionPublishers version
dc.format.extent19 pages : illustrations
dc.identifier.citationRijpma, A., Cilliers, J. & Fourie, J. 2020. Record linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 53(2):112-129. doi:10.1080/01615440.2018.1517030
dc.identifier.issn1940-1906 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0161-5440 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.1080/01615440.2018.1517030
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/125646
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyright
dc.subjectComputer algorithms -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectMachine learning -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectElectronic data processing -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectData processing -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleRecord linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panelen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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