Datasets and Code

Universe of Swedish Plants: The Universe of Swedish Plants contains establishment-level observations of manufacturing establishment during the 20th century. For the purposes of compiling this database we have trained and utilized a TrOCR-model. The database is under progress and currently covers all the universe of Swedish manufacturing plants in 1916, 1925, 1929, and 1939.

histocc: I've developed an R package to help code Swedish historical occupations by hisco, income scores, sector and worker type. The package utilizes existing crosswalks between occupational strings and worker classifications to speed up a common task for researchers. The package also allows for standardizing occupational strings both using a crosswalk and a fuzzy match approach. Find the package at: https://github.com/skoglundw/histocc/tree/main