Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
Professor of historical demography
Louise Ludvigsen,
Mads Perner,
Bjørn-Richard Pedersen,
Rafael Nozal Cañadas,
Anders Sildnes,
Nikita Shvetsov
et al.:
Automated Coding of Historical Danish Cause of death Data Using String Similarity
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 2023 DOI
Chi Quynh Vo,
Per-Jostein Samuelsen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Torbjørn Wisløff,
Tom Wilsgaard,
Anne Elise Eggen
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Comparing the sociodemographic characteristics of participants and non-participants in the population-based Tromsø Study
Ingrid Hellem Nygaard,
Sushma Dahal,
Gerardo Chowell,
Lisa Sattenspiel,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Svenn-Erik Mamelund
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Age-specific mortality and the role of living remotely: The 1918-20 influenza pandemic in Kautokeino and Karasjok, Norway
Petja Lyn Langholz,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Old-age mortality and social class in northern Norway in the first half of the twentieth century
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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What was Killing Babies in Trondheim? An Investigation of Infant Mortality Using Individual Level Cause of Death Data, 1830–1907
Chi Quynh Vo,
Per-Jostein Samuelsen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Torbjørn Wisløff,
Tom Wilsgaard,
Anne Elise Eggen
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Validity of self-reported educational level in the Tromsø Study
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Gunnar Thorvaldsen
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The Impact of Microdata in Norwegian Historiography 1970 to 2020
Bjørn-Richard Pedersen,
Einar Holsbø,
Trygve Andersen,
Nikita Shvetsov,
Johan Ravn,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
et al.:
Lessons Learned Developing and Using a Machine Learning Model to Automatically Transcribe 2.3 Million Handwritten Occupation Codes
Emre Sari,
Mikko Moilanen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Transgenerational Health Effects of In Utero Exposure to Economic Hardship: Evidence from Preindustrial Southern Norway
Marko Kovacevic,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Tuberkulosedød i Nord - En demografisk studie av tuberkulosen i Tromsø kjøpstad 1878 til 1920
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Evelien Walhout
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The Gendering of Infectious Disease: Classifying Male and Female Causes of Death in the Netherlands and Norway, 1880-1910
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Born Dead or Alive? Revisiting the Definition of Stillbirths in Norway
Gunnar Thorvaldsen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Lars Holden
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Anvendelser av Norges historiske befolkningsregister
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Evelien Walhout
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Gorodskaia smertnost’ v Norvegii vo vtoroi polovine XIX v. (po materialam prikhodskikh knig Tronheima) [Mortality and Causes of Death in Late 19th-Century Trondheim, Norway (with Reference to Parish Registers Analysis)]
Mikko Moilanen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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‘I will learn from it for as long as I live’ – religious reading and functional literacy skills
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Evelien Walhout
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Death in the city: a view from 19th century church registers in Norway
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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The Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Mortality in Northern Norway during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Luciana Quaranta,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Introduction: Intergenerational Transmissions of Infant Mortality using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS)
Petja Lyn Langholz,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Doris Tove Kristoffersen,
Laila Arnesdatter Hopstock
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Childhood socioeconomic position and later-life health – linking a modern health survey to 20th century historical population data
2023
Bjørn-Richard Pedersen,
Maria Hiltunen Maltesdotter,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Trygve Andersen
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Towards automated processing of historical causes of death by combining text classification algorithms with machine learning
2023
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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A Critical View of Reported Age in Norwegian Historical Population Microdata
2023
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Teaching historical demography: sources
2023
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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The Norwegian Historical Population Register 1801-1964: Current status, Impact & Future prospects
2023
Chi Quynh Vo,
Tom Wilsgaard,
Per-Jostein Samuelsen,
Ellisiv Bøgeberg Mathiesen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Anne Elise Eggen
et al.:
Longitudinal cholesterol trends across educational groups: the influence of lipid-lowering drugs in the population-based Tromsø Study 1994-2016
2023
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Ways of dying in the past: A demographic evaluation of the first Norwegian cause of death nomenclature
2022
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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122 ways of dying: The development of a cause of death nomenclature in Norway
2022
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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IDS & the Norwegian Historical Population Register
2022
Bjørn-Richard Pedersen,
Trygve Andersen,
Lars Ailo Bongo,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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What to do with the stubborn 3 percent?
2022
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Norsk historisk befolkningsregister + Tromsøundersøkelsen =
Sant
2022
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Why Do We Die? The History of Reporting Cause of Death
2022
Chi Quynh Vo,
Per-Jostein Samuelsen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Torbjørn Wisløff,
Tom Wilsgaard,
Anne Elise Eggen
:
Validity of self-reported educational level in the Tromsø Study
2021
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Towards a Harmonized Historical Coding System: Causes of Death in Norway
2021
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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What was killing babies in Trondheim? An investigation of infant mortality using individual-level causes of death during the period 1830-1910
2021
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Automated Approaches for transcription of 20th century Norwegian census microdata
2021
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Bjørn-Richard Pedersen,
Trygve Andersen
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A FAIR Approach to Harmonized Data
2021
Lars Ailo Bongo,
Bjørn-Richard Pedersen,
Einar Holsbø,
Trygve Andersen,
Tim Alexander Teige,
Nikita Shvetsov
et al.:
Automated approaches for Transcription of 20th Century Norwegian Census Microdata - Lessons Learned
2021
Emre SARI,
Mikko Antti Moilanen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Transgenerational health effects of in utero exposure to economic hardship: Evidence from preindustrial Southern Norway
2021
Emre Sari,
Mikko Moilanen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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A long shadow of mild shocks on health, the intergenerational perspective on the fetal origins hypothesis
2020
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Trygve Andersen,
Bjørn-Richard Pedersen
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Automatic data coding of historic population data
2020
Emre Sari,
Mikko Moilanen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Economic Background Factors of Intergenerational Persistence of Health in Rendalen in the 18th and 19th Centuries
2020
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Norsk Historisk Befolkningregister
2019
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Norsk historisk befolkningsregister: et flergenerasjonelt blikk på aldring
2019
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Familiær ulikhet i spedbarnsdødelighet
2019
Arne Solli,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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The long-term spatial challenges: Intermediate Data Structure & Norwegian Historical Population Register
2019
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Trygve Andersen
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Norwegian Historical Population Register: Status & Future
2019
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Towards a harmonized historical coding system: Causes of Death in Norway
2019
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth,
Arne Solli
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Hotspot Cities: Exploring diagnostics, classification and spatial distribution of fatal measles infections in nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban mortality data
2019
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Ongoing projects and future possibilities
2019
Mikko Moilanen,
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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Religious reading and human capital in 19th century Norway
2018
Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
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The Priest and the Doctor: Understanding the Diagnosis of Death in 19th Century Norway
2018
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Research interests
Dr. Hilde L. Sommerseth (prev. Jåstad) holds a doctoral dissertation from the University of Tromsø, titled: Northern Co-residence across Generations in Northernmost Norway during the Last Part of the Nineteenth Century. Her research centers on historical demography, with a focus on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Family history is the nucleus of her research, stretching from studies on infant mortality to research on household composition. Research interests: Family, aging, fertility, mortality, ethnicity, gender history.
