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Life-Course Data on Female Domestic Servants in East Flanders (1830-1930)
Type
Equipment (E-resource)
Acronym
MAID
Code
APP/00114
Date of commissioning
01 January 2012 → …
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Modern and contemporary history
    • Socio-economic history
  • Social sciences
    • Social differentiation, stratification and social mobility
Keywords
East Flanders Life courses Domestic servants History
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Description
 

The MAID database includes individual data on maidservants who migrated from rural areas to the city of Ghent during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It offers life course data of women born in the East Flanders polder and sandy regions between 1830 and 1900. The base population consists of four generations of women (11,500 individuals, 48 variables).