This dataset 'Ja, ik wil! - Amsterdam marriage banns registers 1580-1810' and its codebook are the results of a Citizen Science Project, executed by the Research Team Institutions for Collective Action (www.collective-action.info) in cooperation with over 500 volunteers. The project has resulted in a dataset of detailed socio-economic details on over 93,000 couples that registered their prebanns with the Amsterdam Reformed or municipal authorities of every fifth year, starting with 1580 and ending with 1810.<div><br></div><div>This data underlies the article: Van Weeren, R. & De
Moor, T. (2021). Counting Couples: The Marriage Banns Registers of the City of Amsterdam,
1580–1810. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 6,
1-45. doi: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-06010002&data=04|01|dehek@eur.nl|559788224e17425ca3cf08d92a6e8a16|715902d6f63e4b8d929b4bb170bad492|0|0|637587476529908837|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0=|1000&sdata=VgAGeaFIdAUfRJg+5vojV50DQ10B3Qc1c8wqjC3X3Hg=&reserved=0">https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-06010002</a></div><div><br></div><div>The article will be available after publication. </div><div><br></div><div>The data is available on request, by contacting: <a href="mailto:collective-action@rsm.nl">collective-action@rsm.nl</a></div><p> </p><p><br></p>
Funding
NWO VIDI Grant "Nature or nurture? A search for the institutional and biological determinants of life expectancy in Europe during the early modern period” funded by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (project ID 256-73-008)