dissabte, 14 d’abril del 2012

One more is over

Yes, All the information collected in paper or in digital format is already in the data base. This means that I'm in position to start analyzing data ..... and start the writting of the dissertation. I will have to read again most of the papers, because after one year... I hope that the summaries written in RefWorks will still be useful

As a result I have a matrix with 20 columns containing original data, all  manually inputed, and 10154 lines, making a total of 203.080 records.

dijous, 5 d’abril del 2012

Last step of a milestone

Yesterday I was at the Anoia Regional Archive, making pictures of the official books of Igualada from 1979 till 1991, covering a period of time for which I had no information at all.


Please, look at the details of the document, and the quality of the writting








Agreement fifth ( Cinquè ): to place the Catalan flag in the City Hall, aside the Spanish one


Getting this documents a milestone is over: stop collecting information.

Knowing the difficulties relating 1979 and 1983, I have to report in three groups:

1979-1983. The beggining of the local democracy
1983-1999. The democracy becomes a fact
2007-2011. The women take position ( Equality Law from March 2007 )

For each year, the percentage of available informaction from primary sources is :


1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011
35,6% 41,7% 73,5% 70,5% 78,0% 89,4% 100,0% 100,0% 100,0%