SubmissionNumber#=%=#19 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#Measuring Social Integration Through Participation: Categorizing Organizations and Leisure Activities in the Displaced Karelians Interview Archive using LLMs ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#17 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Filip Ginter JobTitle#==# Organization#==# Abstract#==#We study how to better use digitized historical archives to answer sociological and historical questions that require more context than raw text mentions provide. Using Finnish World War II Karelian evacuee family interviews, we build on prior extraction of 350K mentions of leisure activities and organizational memberships (71K unique names) that are too diverse and unstructured to analyze directly. We introduce a categorization framework capturing key dimensions of participation: type of activity/organization, typical sociality, regularity, and the level of physical demand. After creating a gold-standard annotated set, we evaluate whether large language models can apply the schema at scale and find that an open-weight LLM, combined with simple multi-run voting, closely matches expert judgments. We then label all 350K entities to produce a structured resource for downstream analyses of social integration and related outcomes. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Joonatan Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Laato Author{1}{Orcid}#=%=# Author{1}{Email}#=%=#joonatan.m.laato@utu.fi Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#University of Turku Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Veera Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Schroderus Author{2}{Orcid}#=%=# Author{2}{Email}#=%=#veera.i.schroderus@utu.fi Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#University of Turku Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Jenna Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Kanerva Author{3}{Username}#=%=#jmnybl Author{3}{Orcid}#=%=# Author{3}{Email}#=%=#jmnybl@utu.fi Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#University of Turku Author{4}{Firstname}#=%=#Jenni Author{4}{Lastname}#=%=#Kauppi Author{4}{Orcid}#=%=# Author{4}{Email}#=%=#jejakau@utu.fi Author{4}{Affiliation}#=%=#University of Turku Author{5}{Firstname}#=%=#Virpi Author{5}{Lastname}#=%=#Lummaa Author{5}{Orcid}#=%=# Author{5}{Email}#=%=#virpi.lummaa@utu.fi Author{5}{Affiliation}#=%=#University of Turku Author{6}{Firstname}#=%=#Filip Author{6}{Lastname}#=%=#Ginter Author{6}{Username}#=%=#fginter Author{6}{Orcid}#=%=#https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5484-6103 Author{6}{Email}#=%=#figint@utu.fi Author{6}{Affiliation}#=%=#University of Turku ========== èéáğö