Concluding congress of the NWO-Groot program 'Life courses in context'
Introduction
The concluding congress of the NWO-Groot program 'Life Courses in context' will take place on Friday April 11th, 2008. The meeting will be held at the International Institute of 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.
At this congress a small part of the possibilities of this new infrastructure for Dutch social, demographic and economic history will be presented. Historians as well as demographers and sociologists used the new data to answer interesting questions about life courses of the Dutch population during the 19th and 20th century.
Chair will be dr. Harry B.G. Ganzeboom, Professor of Sociology and Social Research Methodology at the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and president of the foundation Historical Sample of the Netherlands.