Metadata record for United States Census of Mortality: 1850, 1860, and 1870

United States Census of Mortality: 1850, 1860, and 1870 Fogel, Robert W. Ferrie, Joseph Costa, Dora Karlan, Dean S. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2006-03-30 2526 doi://10.3886/ICPSR02526.v1

This data collection is a portion of the historical data collected by the project, "Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death," which is collecting military, medical, and socioeconomic data on a sample of white males mustered into the Union Army during the Civil War. During 1850, 1860, and 1870, mortality information was gathered at the county level as an addendum to the population census. These data examine the impact of environmental factors on life outcomes and look at the influence of infectious disease rates on economic and health patterns at late ages. Part 1, Disease Data, looks at cause of death from 66 disease classifications. Part 2, General Disease Data, also examines cause of death but through 18 broad disease categories. Variables included in both parts are state, county, year of death, and frequency of death by disease.

UniverseScheme02526 Organization02526_1 NIH PO1 AG10120 Organization02526_2 NSF SBR 9114981 RCMD.VI NACDA.V RCMD.V ICPSR.XVII.G American Civil War causes of death disease environmental impact health problems health status males military service mortality rates Union Army White Americans United States medical records data All deaths in the year prior to the taking of the census in 1850, 1860, and 1870. Individuals who died in a household in which somebody survived were included. mortality census records 1998 1998 ICPSR

AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.

The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Rearch ICPSR

Ann Arbor MI

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health National Science Foundation 2006-03-30 ICPSR 2006-03-30 File CB2526.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. 2005-11-04 ICPSR 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. StudyUnit02526

(1) These files represent a storage format sometimes referred to as a weighted analysis file. The data are organized with one record for each county/year/disease permutation (in the event that no one died in that county/year/disease, no record is created). For each such permutation, the frequency variable contains the number of individuals who died in the county/year of that disease. (2) Questions regarding the use of these data should be directed to Peter Viechnicki at the University of Chicago (peterv@cpe.uchicago.edu).