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Materials and Methods

In: Fertility, Mortality and Migration in SubSaharan Africa

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  • Veijo Notkola

    (Interview and Research Services Statistics)

  • Harri Siiskonen

    (University of Joensuu)

Abstract

In this study the Evangelical Lutheran Church parish record data from Ovamboland, northern Namibia, were used as a primary source. Parish records include several different registers – for example, list of deaths, births, marriages, and migration – and they also include a main register where people are listed by family. Finnish missionaries started their work in Ovamboland during the 1870s. The earliest registers are from the 1880s, when the first Christians were baptized. In the central parts of northern Namibia, about 30–40 per cent of the estimated total population were members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the 1950s. In the 1990s, the proportion is about 70 per cent. Until the 1940s notes on parish records were written on forms sent from Finland.

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  • Veijo Notkola & Harri Siiskonen, 2000. "Materials and Methods," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Fertility, Mortality and Migration in SubSaharan Africa, chapter 6, pages 40-58, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-98134-4_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333981344_6
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