Summary
This component of the Philadelphia Social History Project highlights Philadelphia manufacturing industry data collected in census years 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880. Business level data includes company name, type of business, amount of capital, and number of active months per year. Workforce information includes average number of male, female, and child employees, occupations, average wages per month by sex, and total wages per year. Production details for each manufacturing firm consist of type of power used, horsepower, number and types of machines, value and number of materials, and value and number of products. Geographic variables include district, ward, x- and y-coordinates, street name, and street direction.
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Funding
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health (MH 16621)
Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-05-09-0084-09)
Subject Terms
Geographic Coverage
Smallest Geographic Unit
geocoded street locations
Time Period(s)
1850
1860
1870
1880
Date of Collection
1969 -- 1984
Data Collection Notes
The deposited files for this collection featured two data files identified as "1860 Cards 5 and 6." These files have been named "1860 Cards 5 and 6 Materials and Products (1)" and "1860 Cards 5 and 6 Materials and Products (2)," and are included as datasets 9 and 10, respectively. No additional information was provided.
Study Purpose
The purpose of the manufacturing component of the Philadelphia Social History Project is to allow researchers to reconstruct the spatial location of employment by industry, as well as the web of relations among manufacturing firms.
Universe
Manufacturing firms in the city of Philadelphia, PA during the census years 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880.
Unit(s) of Observation
business
census/enumeration data
Mode of Data Collection
record abstracts
Original Release Date
2014-03-20
Version Date
2014-04-14
Version History
2014-03-20 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:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
2014-04-14 The ICPSR Codebook has been updated.
Notes
The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
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.