Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/235553 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 21-06
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
This is a dataset of vital statistics and cohort component population estimates at a spatially-disaggregated level for the island of Ireland for the period 1911-1920. The raw data were digitised by the authors using official UK government statistics. The population estimates were then derived by the cohort component method. These data provide novel intercensal population estimates at the county level that will be beneficial for researchers working in historical demography, as well as in economic and social history. The data provided can be readily reused and extended by other researchers to produce further series and indicators. An example application of the data in this manner can be seen in Colvin and McLaughlin (2021), which combines the population estimates discussed here with mortality statistics from the Spanish flu pandemic in order to demonstrate how demographic composition affects the interpretation of data on public health crises.
Subjects: 
Demography
historical demography
population studies
population estimates
vital statistics
mortality
migration
Ireland
twentieth century
JEL: 
J11
N33
N34
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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