Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970

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Principal Investigator(s): Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

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... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00003.v1

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