The Quetelet Center for Quantitative Historical Research is an interfaculty and interdisciplinary service centre that offers advice and expertise on the use of historical data that can be studied statistically or in map form.

Researchers from all disciplines and the general public can come to us with questions about the use of quantitative and quantifiable sources on Belgium's past.

In the spotlight

STREAM / PUBLICATION / DECEMBER 2023

How was industry faring in Flanders in the first half of the 18th century? Researchers Wouter Ryckbosch and Anne Winter (VUB) analyzed industrial production and labor using the industrial survey of 1738 from the STREAM database.

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S.O.S. ANTWERP / DATABASE / NOVEMBER 2023

S.O.S. Antwerp, a citizen science project of the Quetelet Center, is honored with an award during the annual science communication awards ceremony by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium. 

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LOKSTAT / POPPKAD / DOCTORAL THESIS / OCTOBER 2023

What role did capital play in the development of the Southern Netherlands? Nicolas De Vijlder unravels in his doctoral thesis the interaction between land and credit markets, analyzing their impact on overall socio-economic relations. For this research, he relied on datasets from LOKSTAT and POPPKAD.

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POPPKAD / DATABASE / SEPTEMBER 2023

POPPKAD, the database of the Belgian cadastral records from the nineteenth century, surpasses the milestone of 10,000 users, setting a new record. The infrastructure is reaching a wide audience.

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