Description & Citation--Study No. 9453

Bibliographic Description
Scope of Study
Methodology
Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:

9453

Persistent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09453

Title:

Census of Population, 1910 [United States]: Oversample of Black-headed Households

Principal Investigator(s):

S. Philip Morgan

Douglas Ewbank

Funding Agency:

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and University of Pennsylvania. Research Foundation.

Grant Number:

NICHD 1-R01-HD18651, and NICHD 1-R01-HD-25856

Bibliographic Citation:

Morgan, S. Philip, and Douglas Ewbank. CENSUS OF POPULATION, 1910 [UNITED STATES]: OVERSAMPLE OF BLACK-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS [Computer file]. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center [producer], 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990.

Scope of Study

Summary:

Designed to facilitate analysis of the status of Blacks around the turn of the century, this oversample of Black-headed households in the United States was drawn from the 1910 manuscript census schedules. The sample complements the 1/250 Public Use Sample of the 1910 census manuscripts collected by Samuel H. Preston at the University of Pennsylvania: CENSUS OF POPULATION, 1910 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE SAMPLE (ICPSR 9166). Part 1, Household Records, contains a record for each household selected in the sample and supplies variables describing the location, type, and composition of the households. Part 2, Individual Records, contains a record for each individual residing in the sampled households and includes information on demographic characteristics, occupation, literacy, nativity, ethnicity, and fertility.

Subject Term(s):

African Americans, census data, demographic characteristics, household composition, households

Geographic Coverage:

Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Virginia

Time Period:

April 15, 1910

Date(s) of Collection:

1910

Universe:

Manuscript census records for 1910 from counties with at least 10 percent of the population African-American (Negro, Black, or Mulatto) located in nine states where a large number of counties had at least this same proportion of African-Americans (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas). The four states with the largest population of Blacks (South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia) were excluded from the oversample because the 1/250 Public Use Sample (referred to above) provided sufficient cases for most analyses.

Data Type:

census/enumeration data

Data Collection Notes:

The data contain blanks and alphabetic characters. This oversample can be combined with the 1/250 Public Use Sample by differential weighting of households (or individuals) by county of enumeration as described in the User's Guide.

Methodology

Sample:

Sampling was carried out using computer software that randomly selected households based on the manuscript census microfilm reel number, sequence, and page and line number, with two different sampling fractions. Counties in Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas were sampled using a 0.01 sampling fraction, while a 0.005 sampling fraction was employed in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and Arkansas. In Louisiana, both fractions were utilized to test optimum sampling fractions.

Data Source:

United States Bureau of the Census 1910 manuscript schedules

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:

1990-12-04

Version History:

The last update of this study occurred on 1992-02-17.

2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

Dataset(s):

DS1: Household Records
DS2: Individual Records
DS3: User's Guide and Codebook