Spanish Contact Search VALENCIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH Ivie People Publications Databases Projects Networks Activities Press Home ->Databases Homogeneous population series The BBVA Foundation and the Ivie, within the framework of their collaboration program, have focused for more than a decade on the analysis of demographic evolution, from the most aggregated level to the municipal level or lower. The information offered by available population censuses and with comparable information since the end of the 19th century has made it possible to construct homogeneous population series . This data bank of the Spanish population takes as reference the census information disaggregated at the municipal level. In particular, the homogeneous Population Series 1900-2011 are based on the municipal structure of the 2011 census, which has a total of 8116 municipalities. The information is dated for each of the twelve censuses carried out by the INE since the beginning of the 20th century, allowing a detailed analysis of the change in the population's location patterns during this long period of time. The work constitutes a laborious process of homogenization of the resident law population that takes into account the alterations of boundaries suffered by many municipalities for more than a century. The disappearance of municipalities, creation, division, merger or change of name has been traced for each of the more than eight thousand municipalities during eleven censuses. This work follows on from the one carried out in 2006 by Goerlich et al. , where a detailed study of the territorial location patterns of the population was offered, taking on that occasion the 2001 census as a reference. Database content The reference information is the right population. The information is available for the 8,116 Spanish municipalities existing in 2011. The series are presented ordered and identified according to the code associated with each municipal term and grouped by the 52 Spanish provinces. The database also presents the area in square kilometers of each of the 8,116 municipalities included in the 2011 census. Methodology For the construction of the homogeneous series, the starting point has been the construction of a precise taxonomy of municipal alterations that can be coded and interrogated using database languages. This allows an efficient treatment of the information, and supposes an additional step in the storage of information on changes in administrative units with territorial support. Its application to municipal alterations from 1842 to the present, has made it possible to have a database of municipal populations purged of errors and inconsistencies, both in terms of populations and alterations. Published studies Los resultados más relevantes de esta base de datos son analizados en la monografía Cambios en la estructura y localización de la población: una visión de largo plazo (1842-2011). Publicada en diciembre de 2015 Otros trabajos relacionados Ruiz, F. and F.J. Goerlich (2015): "Taxonomía y representación de los cambios en los municipios españoles", Estadística Española, 57(187), Every 4 months, pp. 165-196. Goerlich, F.J., M. Mas (dirs.), P. Chorén and J. Azagra (2007): Actividad y territorio. Un siglo de cambios. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 338 pp. Goerlich, FJ and M. Mas (dirs.) (2006): The location of the population on the territory. A century of changes. A study based on homogeneous series, 1900-2001 . Bilbao: BBVA Foundation, 536 pp. How to cite this database BBVA and Ivie Foundation (Valencian Institute for Economic Research). Changes in the structure and location of the population: homogeneous series (1900-2011). November 2015. Database available on the Internet: http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/esp/areas/econosoc/bbdd/serieshomg.jsp Ivie Valencian Institute of Economic Research Recommended sites: U-Ranking ABACO Observatory SPINTAN SIUVP Ivie Researchers Publications Databases Projects Networks Activities Press Privacy policy Web map