PANSOC Guest Lecture 9th February: Lars Holden on the Norwegian Historical Population Register
The National Archives of Norway, Statistics Norway, Institute of Public Health, Norwegian Computing Center, Norwegian Arctic University and National Library of Norway are building a historic population register covering the population of Norway 1800 to present.
On Monday 9th February, Lars Holden, Dr. philos, Research director at Norwegian Computing Center (http://www.nr.no/en/homepage/holden), gave a guest lecture on the possibilities for using the Norwegian Historical Population Register in our research.
The Norwegian Historical Population Register consists of:
· An authoritative register of deceased persons in open sources available at HBR – Forside The register gives each person a unique ID that we encourage to be used in all texts, presentations and exhibitions as documentation.
· Research data is currently available for the deceased part of the population at the email address histreg.no or Lars.Holden@nr.no.
· The closed register extends the National Population Register and is linked to all modern register data. We expect research data will be available during 2027.