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United States Census of Mortality: 1850, 1860, and 1870

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Principal Investigator(s): Fogel, Robert W.; Ferrie, Joseph; Costa, Dora; Karlan, Dean S.

Summary: 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 an... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02526.v1

Access Notes

  • This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).

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