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CENSUS AND PROPERTY SURVEY FOR FLORENTINE DOMAINS AND THE CITY OF VERONA IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY ITALYA User's Guide to the Machine Readable Data FilePrincipal Investigators:David Herlihy, Department of History, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Christiane Klapishe-Zuber, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France 1977 Documentation Prepared by:Data and Program Library Service Data Distributed by:Data and Program Library Service |CATALOGING-IN-SOURCE |BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION | DOCUMENTATION TABLE OF CONTENTS | INTRODUCTION | NOTES ON THE DARCY EDITION OF THE CATASTO STUDY | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF DONATION| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ASSISTANCE CATALOGING-IN-SOURCEMachine-readable data file plus codebook Herlihy, David and Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane. Census and property survey of Florentine domains and the city of Verona in fifteenth century Italy [machine- readable data file] / principal investigators, David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. --Darcy ed. / reformatted by Robert Darcy -- Madison, Wis. : Data and Program Library Service [distributor], 1981 and 1996. 31 data files + 2 location code files + 2 program files + 1 codebook (p.90). Summary: The data were coded during 1966 to 1976 from the official manuscripts of the tax declarations (Campioni) in the fifteenth century Italy. For each household, one person was assigned as the 'fiscal head', the individual primarily responsible for the tax. Data for each household include name of fiscal head, type of dwelling, animal ownership, occupation of fiscal head, value of public and private investments, deductions, and tax. This data set is also known as Catasto study. Archival study number: AG-504-001. 1. Florence (Italy)--Social conditions. 2. Florence (Italy)--Economic conditions. 3. Florence (Italy)--Census, 1427. I. title. II. Catasto study. III.Klapisch-Zuber,Christiane. Printed Codebook Only Census and property survey of Florentine domains and the city of Verona in fifteenth century Italy: a user's guide to the machine-readable data file / principal investigators, David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. --DPLS ed.-- Madison, Wis. : Data and Program Library Service, 1981. 1 v. ca. 90 p. This codebook is to be used in conjunction with machine-readable data collection with the same title. It documents data locations, variable description and code values. I. Herlihy, David II.Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane III. Catsto Study IV. title. BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONElectronic resources are well established as a means of information dissemination. The purpose of making a reference to an electronic resource is to give enough information so that it can be located as well as acknowledge those authors whose intellectual works are in electronic format. Users of these data are requested to cite them properly. Below is an example of the proper citation of this work. You should consult a proper style manual and modify the example to maintain consistency in punctuation and typeface. Publications based on DPLS data collections should acknowledge those sources by means of bibliographic citations. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for social science bibliographic utilities, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: Herlihy, David and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. Census and property survey of Florentine domains and the city of Verona in the fifteenth century ltaly [machine- readable data file]. Cambridge, Mass.: David Herlihy, Harvard University, Department of History and Paris, France: Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes [producers], 1977. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, Data and Program Library Service [distributor], 1988 and 1996.; <http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Catasto/index.html>; (). Return to Catasto Home Page
DOCUMENTATIONOnline Codebook (PDF, 3.5Mb) INTRODUCTIONThe data were coded, during 1966 to 1976, from the official manuscripts of the tax declarations (Campioni) for the city of Florence and environs (Florentine domains) from 1427 to 1429, the 10% samples of the declarations for Florence in 1458 and 1480 and for the city of Verona in 1425 and 1502. Parts of the 1425 survey have been lost. Therefore, the data set includes only those households and parishes for which records have survived. The survey of 1502 is also incomplete as it includes only those parishes which are included in the earlier survey. The survey consists of data on the fiscal household as defined by the government for the purpose of collecting the tax. For each household, the survey assigns one person as the 'fiscal head', the individual primarily responsible for collecting the tax. Data for the entire household include: name of fiscal head, type of dwelling, animal ownership, occupation of fiscal head, value of public and private investments, deductions, possessions, members, final assessments and tax. Data on individual members include: age, sex, matrimonial state, relationship to fiscal head, and commentary. The file is hierarchical with two record types. Each record has 6 cards and each card is 80 characters long. The first record type is an economic record which provides data on the entire household. All households have one. The second record type is a demographic record listing information on individual members of the household. There can be more than one demographic record (O to 5) per household depending on the number of members in the household. The number of observations varies with each series (see Appendix F for the nubmer of observations for each series). Consistency and edit checks have been carried out for all variables. There are no restrictions on access to the public use files. Also available is:
For users unable to download the data and documenation at this web site, copies of the data and documentation (also the extraction program and the Diocese data) can be obtained from Ms. Laura Guy, Data and Program Library Service, 3308 Social Science Building, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Ms. Guy can also be reached at (608) 262-7962. NOTES ON THE DARCY EDITION OF THE CATASTO STUDYThe original Catasto public use file consists of one economic card describing each household (the unit of analysis) followed by one, two, three, four, five, or no demographic cards pertaining to individuals in the household. Because standard analysis packages such as SAS or SPSS require each case to have the same format, the original Catasto public use file was awkward to work with. Thus Dr. Robert Darcy in the Department of Political Science in the Oklahoma State University wrote a program to correct certain extant errors and pad household with as many blank records as necessary to ensure each has five demographic cards. No records were deleted. There were 2 types of corrections. The first correction was where the sequence of demographic cards was out of order; in which case they were put in the correct order. The second correction was where the number of demographic cards per household, i.e. column 8 of the demographic cards, did not correspond with the actual data. The corrections were made to reflect the actual number of demographic cards per household. An SPSS setup was prepared which defines the 279 variables in the new data et and label each appropriately. DPLS is distributing the DARCY edition of Catasto study. There are 31 data files which are the reformatted Catasto and correspond to the 31 files in the original public use data set. The CATASTO.SPSS is a SPSS setup file. It includes the job control language necessary to run analysis. Users should list and output this file. It can be modified to suit the requirements of the user's installation. The SPSS setup defines variables for the household (Vl to V29) and for each of 50 possible household members (V30 to V279). The SPSS setup serves as the documentation to the reformatted Catasto. The CATASO.PRG contains the PL/I program used to reformat and correct the original public use file. The file contains the job control language necessary to run the program at Oklahoma State University. It, too, can be listed, output, andmodified to suit the requirements of the user's installation. {If you have further question regarding the reformatted data set please contact Robert Darcy at the Department of Political Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK74078, (405)624-5569.} Reference: J. Paul Bischoff and Robert Darcy, "Reformatting the Florentine Catasto for use by Standard Statistical Analysis Programs," Computers and Medieval Data Processing, XI, (October, 1981):5-6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF DONATIONThis editon of the census and property survey of Florentine domains and the city of Verona in fifteenth century Italy has been deposited at the Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison for public distribution by David Herlihy, Department History, Harvard University and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France. Funding support for preparing the original data and this public use edition was provided to Professor Herlihy and Madam Klapisch-Zuber by the following agencies: the American Council of Learned Societies, the Centre National de la Rescherche Scinetifique (CNRS), the Graduate Research Committee, University of Wisconsin-Madison, the National Science Foundation (Grant No. GS-36723) and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ASSISTANCEAll manuscripts utilizing data made available through the Data and Program Library Service should acknowledge that fact as well as cite the title of the study as indicated on the title page and sample catalog statement and identify the original collectors of the data. All users of these data are urged to follow some adaptation of this statement with the parentheses indicating items to be completed or deleted appropriated by the individual analyst. The data (and tabulations) utilized in this publication were made available (in part) by the Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The data for the Census and Property Survey of Florentine Domains and the City of Verona in Fifteenth Century Italy were prepared by David Herlihy, Department of History, Harvard University and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France. Neither the principal investigators nor Data and Program Library Service bear any responsibility for the analysis or interpretations presented here. In order to provide funding agencies with essential information about the use of archival resources and to facilitate the exchange of information about DPLS participants' research activities, each user of these facilities is expected to send two copies of each completed manuscript, thesis abstract, or reprint to the Data and Program Library Service. Return to Catasto Home Page
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