Welcome
Welcome to the 1795-1971 Dutch Censuses website. This website enables you to view or download most of the Dutch census tables, published in the period 1795-1971. Besides, most of the instructions and attachments (see documentation) are online available. The original records were scanned and digitized and are now available as images as well as MS Excel tables. In addition to the Excel record tables, this site includes many of the original census documents in Adobe PDF format.
Since 1997, the digitization of the data was accomplished during the course of three projects: Dutch Census Digitization 1795-1971, Dutch Census Data and Life Courses in Context. As a result of these three projects over 40,000 record pages were made digitally available to the public.Please note that all files available on this site are files under construction. Which means that the control process of the files is not yet completed. We welcome your comments and your suggestions.
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The censusses are a rich source of information about living, housing and occupation
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Future of the project
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) participates in the completion of the 1795-1971 Dutch Censuses project. The missing tables are being corrected and shall be added to the website in due time. DANS is recently involved in evaluation of the results of a digitization test of hand-written census tables from the archive of the Statistics Netherlands. Images of the tables from the census of 1947 have already been made available through this website. If the OCR processing of the scans will show good results DANS will start a large project of digitization of the hand-written tables of all the census years archived at the Statistics Netherlands.
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Congress Life Courses in the 19th and 20th Century
Concluding congress of the NW0-Groot program 'Life courses in context' The concluding congress of 'Life Courses in context' will take place on Friday April 11th, 2008. The meeting will be held at the International Institute for Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. Funded by NWO-Groot, the last five years attempts have been made to reconstruct the life courses of about 40,000 Dutchmen born between 1863 and 1922. Data on aggregated level from 1859-1947, like population censuses and counts of labor force, were added to these data on individual level. Read more >>
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