Mats Olsson
Prefekt Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, Professor
Estimating agricultural production in Scania, 1702–1881 : User guide for the Historical Database of Scanian Agriculture and overall results
Författare
Summary, in English
The Historical Database of Scanian Agriculture (HDSA) is a micro-level database over farm production in the most southern Swedish region of Scania (Skåne) based on flexible tithes. It contains over 85,000 farm level observations of both vegetable and animal production for the period 1702 to 1881. Moreover, this information is supplemented by information on the farmer, the farm, on enclosures, natural conditions, and distances from the farmstead to towns. The database is an open source and this paper provides information on the sources behind the data, the composition of the sample, and the way the database can be used to estimate production. The second part of the paper performs an overall analysis of the agricultural revolution in the area, showing the development over time of the vegetable and animal production, their respective significance, and an estimation of production per capita 1702 to 1865.
Avdelning/ar
- Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2017
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Lund Papers in Economic History: General Issues
Issue
151
Fulltext
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Dokumenttyp
Working paper
Förlag
Department of Economic History, Lund University
Ämne
- Economic History
Nyckelord
- agriculture
- production
- database
- micro level
- Sweden
- 18th century
- 19th century
- N53
- Q12
- Y10
Status
Published
Projekt
- Historical Database of Scanian Agriculture 1702-1881