FOLKNET database - Demographic Data Base
type: Dataset
description: The database FOLKNET contains information about the population in Sweden’s parishes, cities and municipalities according to the geographical division around 1990, every ten years during the period 1810–1990. The data has been collected by Christian Svärd, and the Demographic Data Base has digitized the information. The information has mainly been taken from Statistics Sweden’s historical publications. Additional data have been collected from the population forms of the database TABVERK. The database POPULATION is freely available from the home page of the Demographic Data Base.
conditions of access: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/PUBLIC
conditions of access: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
creative work status: completed
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  in defined term set: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/dataset-status
  term code: COMPLETED
creator: Umeå university
date modified: 2026-07-14
date published: 2014-02-26
language: Swedish
keywords: DEMOGRAPHY (POPULATION, VITAL STATISTICS, AND CENSUSES)
keywords: Censuses
keywords: History
  type: DefinedTerm
  term code: 60101
keywords: congregations
keywords: demographic statistics
publisher: Umeå university
size: QuantitativeValue
  unit text: cases
  value: 2871
size: QuantitativeValue
  unit text: variables
  value: 23
spatial coverage: Sweden
temporal coverage: 1810/1990
version: 1

PropertyValue
property ID: DOI
value: 10.17197/folknetdb_v01

Umeå university
type: Organization
department: Demographic database
name: Umeå University

Swedish
type: Language
alternate name: swe

DEMOGRAPHY (POPULATION, VITAL STATISTICS, AND CENSUSES)
type: DefinedTerm
term code: Demography

Censuses
type: DefinedTerm
description: Surveys of an entire population, as opposed to a sample survey. Often used for official enumerations of a population, usually including the collection of related demographic information. Note that in some countries censuses are not used as demographic information can be obtained from official registers.
term code: Demography.Censuses

DEMOGRAPHY
type: DefinedTerm

VITAL STATISTICS
type: DefinedTerm

congregations
type: DefinedTerm
term code: p3029

demographic statistics
type: DefinedTerm
term code: p6724

Sweden
type: Place