Indiana Voter: Nineteenth Century Rural Bases of Partisanship, 1870 (ICPSR 30)

Published: Mar 25, 2008

Principal Investigator(s):
Melvyn A. Hammarberg

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00030.v1

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Project Description

Summary

This data collection contains information on adult males living in nine counties of Indiana in 1870. The variables provide individual-level demographic information, such as county and township of residence, age, race, place of birth, parents' place of birth, status within the family, occupation, religious affiliation, and literacy level. Other variables provide information on the individual's and the family's real and total wealth, respectively, political party affiliation of the individual, disability condition, number of years the individual lived in Indiana, and percentage of life spent in Indiana.

Citation

Hammarberg, Melvyn A. Indiana Voter: Nineteenth Century Rural Bases of Partisanship, 1870. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-03-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00030.v1

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Subject Terms

census data counties demographic characteristics foreign born males nineteenth century occupations personal wealth place of birth place of residence political affiliation political parties political partisanship religious affiliation rural areas voters

Geographic Coverage

Indiana United States

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1870

Data Collection Notes

The data maps are provided as ASCII text files, and the codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

Methodology

Universe

Adult males living in nine central counties in Indiana in 1870.

Data Source

(1) United States Census of 1870, and (2) 1874 PEOPLE'S GUIDE

Data Type(s)

census data, and administrative records data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-06-20

Version Date

2008-03-25

Version History

1984-06-20 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.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 3 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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.