Aging of Veterans of the Union Army: United States Federal Census Records, 1850, 1860, 1900, 1910 (ICPSR 6836)

Version Date: Jun 13, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Robert W., et al. Fogel, University of Chicago. Center for Population Economics

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06836.v6

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Summary

This data collection constitutes a portion of the historical data collected by the project "Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death." With the goal of constructing datasets suitable for longitudinal analyses of factors affecting the aging process, the project is collecting military, medical, and socioeconomical data on a sample of white males mustered into the Union Army during the Civil War. The project seeks to examine the influence of environmental and host factors prior to recruitment on the health performance and survival of recruits during military service, to identify and show relationships between socioeconomic and biomedical conditions (including nutritional status) of veterans at early ages and mortality rates from diseases at middle and late ages, and to study the effects of health and pensions on labor force participation rates of veterans at ages 65 and over. This installment of the collection, Version C-3, supersedes all previous collections (Versions C-1 and C-2), and contains data from the censuses of 1850, 1860, 1900, and 1910 on veterans who were originally mustered into the Union Army in Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and West Virginia. This version of the collection also contains observations from Wisconsin, Indiana, California, and New Mexico. Census Data, Part 1, includes place of residence, relationship to head of household, date and place of birth, number of children, education, disability status, employment status, number of years in the United States, literacy, marital status, occupation, parents' birthplace, and property/home ownership. The variables in Part 2, Linkage Data, indicate which document sources were located for each recruit.

Citation

Fogel, Robert W. Aging of Veterans of the Union Army: United States Federal Census Records, 1850, 1860, 1900, 1910. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-06-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06836.v6

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health (NIH PO1 AG10120), National Science Foundation (NSF SBR 9114981)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1850, 1860, 1900, 1910

Date of Collection

1987 -- 1989, 1992 -- 1998

Data Collection Notes

  1. Users interested in the previous versions of this collection, Versions C-1 and C-2, should contact ICPSR User Support.

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Sample

A one-stage cluster sample of Union Army companies was randomly selected from the "Regimental Books" housed at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

Universe

Union Army recruits in White volunteer infantry regiments. Commissioned officers, Black recruits, and other branches of the military were excluded from the universe.

Data Source

United States Censuses of 1850, 1860, 1900, and 1910.

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1997-04-14

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Fogel, Robert W., et al. Aging of Veterans of the Union Army: United States Federal Census Records, 1850, 1860, 1900, 1910. ICPSR06836-v6. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-06-13. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06836.v6

2006-06-13 The Stata files stored the 10 digit, numeric ID variable as 10f (floating), which altered the number and made it unuseable. It was necessary to change the RECIDNUM (unique record ID number required to merge files) to a string variable to retain the uniqueness and useability.

2006-04-05 The data have been reformatted to correct problems with the variable width for RECIDNUM.

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.

2001-05-27 Version C-3 has been supplied by the principal investigators. A new file (Part 2, Linkage Data) is included that indicates which document sources were located for each recruit.

1999-03-25 Logical record length data and data definition statements have been extracted from the SAS transport file.

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.