The Dutch East India Company's Eighteenth-Century Workforce:an Enriched Data Collection

This is a dataset on 460,452 individuals employed by the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) in the seventeenth and especially the eighteenth centuries, developed from 774,200 muster records in the ‘VOC-opvarenden’ collection. The original data has been enhanced through the disambiguation of individual records, the standardization of 44,152 unique place names, and the addition of wage details and rank structure. This collection includes the original ‘VOC-opvarenden’ dataset (comprising three files), enriched files (totaling nine), integrated external data, and Jup... Mehr ...