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Description & Citation--Study No. 9385

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:9385
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09385
 
Title:National Sample from the 1880 Census of Manufacturing
 
Principal Investigator(s):Jeremy Atack
 
  Fred Bateman
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation
 
Grant Number:SES-86-05637, and SES-86-09392
 
Bibliographic Citation:Atack, Jeremy, and Fred Bateman. NATIONAL SAMPLE FROM THE 1880 CENSUS OF MANUFACTURING [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR version. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois/Bloomington, IN: Indiana University [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09385
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This collection presents information from the 1880 census of manufacturing in 36 states and the District of Columbia. It was originally collected to paint a quantitative picture of industrialization in the United States. The data describe states and counties in terms of urban or rural, amount of capital invested, and numbers of male, female, and child workers employed. Additional information includes daily wage for skilled and unskilled labor, annual wage bill, hours in ordinary day's labor, number of waterwheels and steam engines, and horsepower by water or steam.
 
Subject Term(s):census data, historical data, industrialization, manufacturing, nineteenth century, wages and salaries, workers
 
Smallest Geographic Unit:city
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1880
 
Date(s) of Collection:1986
 
Unit of Observation:establishment/plant
 
Universe:United States and territories for which records were extant.
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) These data can be analyzed at the national and/or regional level, but not the state level. For state-level analyses, use the data available as STATE SAMPLES FROM THE 1880 CENSUS OF MANUFACTURING (ICPSR 9384). (2) State data for other nineteenth century censuses are available as STATE SAMPLES FROM THE CENSUS OF MANUFACTURING: 1850, 1860, AND 1870 (ICPSR 4071). (3) National data for other nineteenth century census are available as NATIONAL SAMPLES FROM THE CENSUS OF MANUFACTURING: 1850, 1860, AND 1870 (ICPSR 4048). (4) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
 

Methodology

Sample:Random samples from the U.S. Census.
 
Data Source:Bureau of the Census documents
 

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 2004-10-08.
 
  2004-10-08 - The data and documentation were updated by Jeremy Atack and resupplied to ICPSR in 2004.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: National Sample from the 1880 Census of Manufacturing
 

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