ICPSR Metadata record for Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2005-12-22 3 doi://10.3886/ICPSR00003.v1
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.
 UniverseScheme00003 Census of Population and Housing, 1790-1950 [United States] Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00180. Organization00003_1 GS-1435, GS-1435A1, GS-1231, GS-2473, and APR75-01320 ICPSR.I.A.1.a RCMD.V DSDR.VI 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 United States 1790 1970 aggregate data The Population of the United States from 1790-1970 ICPSR
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(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