Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970 (ICPSR 3)

Published: Dec 22, 2005

Principal Investigator(s):
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Series:

Census of Population and Housing, 1790-1950 [United States] Series

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00003.v1

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Project Description

Summary

Detailed county and state-level ecological or descriptive data for the United States for the years 1790 to 1970 are contained in this collection. These data files contain extensive information about the social and political character of the United States, including a breakdown of population by state, race, nationality, number of families, size of the family, births, deaths, marriages, occupation, religion, and general economic conditions. Though not complete over the full time span of this study, statistics are available on such diverse subjects as total numbers of newspapers and periodicals, total capital invested in manufacturing, total numbers of educational institutions, total number of churches, taxation by state, and land surface area in square miles.

Citation

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-12-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00003.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation. Research Applied to National Needs (GS-1435, GS-1435A1, GS-1231, GS-2473, and APR75-01320)

Subject Terms

census data counties demographic characteristics economic conditions eighteenth century families historical data marriage national identity nineteenth century occupations political change population population size religion states (USA) twentieth century

Geographic Coverage

United States

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1790 -- 1970

Data Collection Notes

(1) This study has been updated and revised as HISTORICAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DATA: THE UNITED STATES, 1790-2000 (ICPSR 2896). ICPSR staff recommends that, for most purposes, researchers use the updated version istead of ICPSR 0003

Methodology

Universe

The Population of the United States from 1790-1970

Data Source

(1) United States Bureau of the Census decennial census reports, and (2) SURVEY OF CHURCHES AND CHURCH MEMBERSHIP, 1952

Data Type(s)

aggregate data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-07-06

Version Date

2005-12-22

Version History

2005-12-22 All files were removed from dataset 35 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.