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. 2017 Apr 11;4:170046. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.46

Table 9. Match rates for each geocoding level and parish.

Geocoding level Period Persons Person-years Match rate (%)
 
Property unit Address
The match rate represents the percent of geocoded person-years. Persons represents the number of individuals who have lived within the specified parish.
         
Hög 1813–1848 1,398 9,108 87.8 97.5
  1849–1914 3,408 33,035 83.8 97.9
Kävlinge 1813–1848 1,898 11,272 71.5 96.3
  1849–1914 9,507 66,486 63.2 91.7
Sireköpinge 1813–1848 2,388 18,337 0* 86.9*
  1849–1914 10,353 80,500 62.5 96.4
Halmstad 1813–1848 2,427 18,833 58.8 75.21
  1849–1914 6,806 56,397 54.8 94.9
Kågeröd 1813–1848 5,165 55,997 27.1 31.2
  1849–1914 10,850 10,3175 76.9 94.2
All parishes 1813–1848 12,826 113,548 37.3 45.4
  1849–1914 39,350 339,595 66.6 92.2

*The land reforms had not been conducted in Sireköpinge for the period 1813–1848. The individuals can be geocoded on the address level with the given match rate because most individuals lived within the village and did not live in their property units.

The total number of individuals in this dataset for the period 1813–1914 is approximately 45,000, which is less than the 53,000 individuals mentioned in ref. 7. The reason is that the latter number includes all individuals with at least one event registered, whereas the former and publicly open dataset excluded individuals with only one event registered (individuals with only a birth, a death or a migration registered).

These match rates are low because some of the land reforms had not been implemented in this period. Thus, people still lived within the villages and cultivated nearby scattered plots.