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Support
for Strong Research Environment
The Swedish Research council has selected Centre for Population Studies as a Strong Research Environment and given financial support. This implies that CPS is one of the 10 centres of excellence chosen from 261 applications to the Swedish research Council. Each of these ten centres will receive 4,4 Million SEK (475 000 Euro) per annum over a period of five years. Besides the importance of the financial support from the Swedish Research Council, CPS also receives the very prestigious label of having an outstanding quality of its research in an international perspective.
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Financial
support from The Swedish Research Council
DDB
has been granted a total of 3, 6 million SEK from The Swedish
Research Council, in order to digitalize information from the
church registers of five parishes with indigenous populations.
This project implies to register all the information from the
church and ministerial registers from two parishes with indigenous
populations in the northernmost part of Sweden as well as three
parishes from the more southern parishes where the Sami lived.
The sources that will be digitalized covers the period 1750-1900.
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DDB
- A national and international research facility
As a
national research resource the Demographic Data Base activities
are centred on two main areas: data production and research. Data
production includes input, filing and systematizing information
from historical parish registers and parish statistics in Sweden.
This information is retrievable from relational databases. The
Demographic Data Base encourages researchers from both Sweden
and abroad in using its material for various research purposes
which require large sets of individual and family life course
data.
DDB's research activities include method development, service
for researchers, provision of guest research posts, seminars,
conferences etc. |
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Indiko - Parish registers on the net
Search in our population database with Indiko. This service is mainly
for archives, schools and other public use. |
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