Demographic Characteristics of the Population of the United States, 1930-1950: County-Level (ICPSR 20)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

Principal Investigator(s):
John Gardner, University of Chicago. Center for Urban Studies; William Cohen, University of Chicago. Center for Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00020.v1

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Project Description

Summary

This data collection contains county-level information on total number of population and internal migration in the United States from 1930 to 1950. Demographic information is provided on race, age, and sex for the counties. There are variables that provide information by age group on the number of native-born white males and females, foreign-born white males and females, Black males and females, and males and females of other nationalities such as Indians, Japanese, and Chinese. For 1930 and 1940, the population is tabulated in five-year intervals until age 34 and in ten-year intervals thereafter. For 1950, the numbers of whites and non-whites are given by sex and age in five-year intervals. Additional variables provide information by age group on net migration of white males and females, and on Black males and females. Other variables give information on births and deaths.

Citation

Gardner, John, and Cohen, William. Demographic Characteristics of the Population of the United States, 1930-1950: County-Level. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00020.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare

United States Social Security Administration

United States Department of Commerce. Economic Development Administration

Subject Terms

African Americans birth rates counties demographic characteristics ethnic groups internal migration mortality rates population dynamics population migration

Geographic Coverage

United States

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1930 -- 1950

Methodology

Universe

A total of 3,111 counties, plus a few aggregated spatial units, in the 50 states of the United States.

Data Source

United States Bureau of the Census censuses of population for 1930, 1940, and 1950

Data Type(s)

census data, and aggregate data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-06-28

Version Date

1992-02-16

Version History

1984-06-28 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.