Nineteenth Century Family History in Michigan: 1850-1880 (ICPSR 32)
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Sam Bass Jr. Warner
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00032.v1
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This data collection provides information on the characteristics of 1,194 Michigan families in rural places, towns and villages, and the urban areas of Detroit in 1850 and 1880. Data are provided on the geographic location of each household and type of locale, total number of residents in the household, and total number of children of the head of each household. Demographic variables provide information on age, race, place of birth, and occupation of the household head and their spouse, place of birth of father and mother of the household head and of their spouse, sex of the household head and their children, and age of the children. Additional variables provide information on the number of children listed as unemployed, the number of parents or parents-in-law of the household head residing in the household, the number of other related adults aged 14 and older, other related children aged 14 and younger living in the household, the number of servants or employees in the household, and the number of boarders or roomers in the household.
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A total of 1,194 households in Michigan in 1850 and 1880.
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Population of the United States in 1850 and 1880.
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manuscript censuses of 1850 and 1880
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1984-05-10
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- Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. NINETEENTH CENTURY FAMILY HISTORY IN MICHIGAN: 1850-1880. ICPSR00032-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. [producer and distributor], 1999. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00032.v1
1984-05-10 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:
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