An Approach to a Formal Statistical Analysis of Historical Data based on the Town of Bamberg

The following article presents an example for the application of statistical methods in the analysis of historical sources. In the course of a research into the labour migration of craftsmen in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times, the Bamberg borough council’s “Handwerksgesellenregister” (journeymen’s register) had been included. Among others, one purpose of the research was to determine the connexion between the duration of employment and the number of persons being employed within the given period of time. The Yassouridis & Hansert concordance-coefficient is supposed to measure the degree of the above mentioned characteristic’s coherence.