Finnish Municipalities 1880 to 1974: Creating Harmonized Statistical Units Over a Century

20 Pages Posted: 14 Oct 2020

Date Written: August 25, 2020

Abstract

A rich universe of municipality-level or municipality-aggregated data is available for Finland, going back more than 150 years. The unit of analysis -- the municipality -- however, has been unstable across this period, thus making consistent data analysis difficult and time-consuming. I propose a transparent data-harmonization procedure, and provide the underlying data, crosswalks, and automated scripts to perform harmonization for the 1880 to 1974 time period.

Keywords: Finland, History, Economics, Harmonization, Software, Reproducible

JEL Classification: A1, Y1, N33, N34, R10

Suggested Citation

Mueller Gastell, Jonas, Finnish Municipalities 1880 to 1974: Creating Harmonized Statistical Units Over a Century (August 25, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3680817 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3680817

Jonas Mueller Gastell (Contact Author)

Stanford Department of Economics ( email )

Stanford, CA
United States

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