Historical Amsterdam City Council Candidates with Gender Information
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Description
A manually compiled dataset of candidates for Amsterdam City Council elections, including inferred gender designations. The data was gathered by a former employee using old electoral lists, city archives, newspapers, and other historical sources. Historical figures from more than 50 years ago were previously unavailable digitally.
Use Cases
Analyzing historical gender representation in local politics based on manually researched candidate gender.
Studying the evolution of candidate demographics over time based on historical electoral lists.
Researching candidates whose gender does not fit binary categories based on the 'Others' designation.
Investigating data completeness and uncertainty in historical records based on the 'certainly' column for plausible but unconfirmed gender.
Strengths
Manually compiled from primary sources including municipal archives and old newspapers.
Includes gender designations for candidates, with categories for non-binary and unknown cases.
Addresses a historical data gap where figures from over 50 years ago were not digitally available.
Limitations
Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Gender information for some candidates is plausible but not certain, as indicated by an empty 'certainly' column.
Provenance
Source
Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
Collection Method
Manually compiled by an employee from old electoral lists, Amsterdam City Archives, newspapers, and other historical sources.
Time Range
Covers historical elections, including periods over 50 years ago.
Freshness
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.