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

Version Date: Mar 25, 2008

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Principal Investigator(s):
Melvyn A. Hammarberg

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

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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. [distributor], 2008-03-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00030.v1

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Time Period(s)

1870

Data Collection Notes

  1. 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.

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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

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Original Release Date

1984-06-20

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:
  • Hammarberg, Melvyn A. Indiana Voter: Nineteenth Century Rural Bases of Partisanship, 1870. ICPSR00030-v1. [distributor], 2020-01-15. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00030.v1

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

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.
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