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Description & Citation--Study No. 3

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:3
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00003
 
Title:Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970
 
Principal Investigator(s):Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
 
Series:Census of Population and Housing, 1790-1950 [United States] Series
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation. RANN Division
 
Grant Number:GS-1435, GS-1435A1, GS-1231, GS-2473, and APR75-01320
 
Bibliographic Citation:Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. HISTORICAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DATA: THE UNITED STATES, 1790-1970 [Computer file]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 197?.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:Detailed county and state-level ecological or descriptive data for the United States for the years 1790 to 1970 are contained in this collection. These data files contain extensive information about the social and political character of the United States, including a breakdown of population by state, race, nationality, number of families, size of the family, births, deaths, marriages, occupation, religion, and general economic conditions. Though not complete over the full time span of this study, statistics are available on such diverse subjects as total numbers of newspapers and periodicals, total capital invested in manufacturing, total numbers of educational institutions, total number of churches, taxation by state, and land surface area in square miles.
 
Subject Term(s):census data, counties, demographic characteristics, economic conditions, eighteenth century, families, historical data, marriage, national identity, nineteenth century, occupations, political change, population, population size, religion, states (USA), twentieth century
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1790 - 1970
 
Universe:The Population of the United States from 1790-1970
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) This study has been updated and revised as HISTORICAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DATA: THE UNITED STATES, 1790-2000 (ICPSR 2896). ICPSR staff recommends that, for most purposes, researchers use the updated version istead of ICPSR 0003
 

Methodology

Data Source:(1) United States Bureau of the Census decennial census reports, and (2) SURVEY OF CHURCHES AND CHURCH MEMBERSHIP, 1952
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-07-06
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 1992-02-16.
 
  2005-12-22 - All files were removed from dataset 35 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: 1790 Census (County and State)
  • DS2: 1800 Census (County and State)
  • DS3: 1810 Census (County and State)
  • DS4: 1820 Census (County and State)
  • DS5: 1830 Census (County and State)
  • DS6: 1840 Census (County and State)
  • DS7: 1850 Census (County and State)
  • DS8: 1860 Census (County and State)
  • DS9: 1870 Census (County and State)
  • DS10: 1880 Census (County and State)
  • DS11: 1890 Census (County and State)
  • DS12: 1890 Census Religious Data (County and State)
  • DS13: 1900 Census (County and State)
  • DS14: 1910 Census (County and State)
  • DS15: 1920 Census (County and State)
  • DS16: 1930 Census (County and State)
  • DS17: 1940 Census (County and State)
  • DS18: 1950 Census (County and State)
  • DS19: 1960 Census (County and State)
  • DS20: 1970 Census (County and State)
  • DS21: 1850 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
  • DS22: 1860 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
  • DS23: 1870 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
  • DS24: 1870 Census Dataset S02 (State Only)
  • DS25: 1870 Census Dataset S03 (State Only)
  • DS26: 1880 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
  • DS27: 1880 Census Dataset S02 (State Only)
  • DS28: 1890 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
  • DS29: 1900 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
  • DS30: 1910 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
  • DS31: 1920 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
  • DS32: 1930 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
  • DS33: 1940 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
  • DS34: 1950 Census Dataset S01 (State Only)
 

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