Population Redistribution and Economic Growth in the United States: Population Data, 1870-1960 (ICPSR 7753)

Published: Aug 31, 2011

Principal Investigator(s):
Simon Kuznets; Dorothy Swaine Thomas

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07753.v2

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Project Description

Summary

Detailed demographic characteristics of the population of the United States from 1870 to 1960 are contained in this data collection. Included are state-level estimates of the nation's inhabitants by sex, race, nativity and age, as well as intercensal migration calculated by age, race, and sex. The basic information recorded in this collection was obtained from the decennial censuses of the United States or estimated by the principal investigators from material collected by the decennial censuses. The collection is comprised of thirteen separate data files. Each contains information for every state in the nation. All parts have a rectangular file structure with one record per case, with the number of cases ranging from 50 to 2,891, and the record length from 203 to 2,930 per part. Standard geographic identifying codes used in all of the files permit the combination of two or more of the files as research interests dictate.

Citation

Kuznets, Simon, and Thomas, Dorothy Swaine. Population Redistribution and Economic Growth in the United States: Population Data, 1870-1960. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-31. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07753.v2

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Subject Terms

birth rates census data census records demographic characteristics economic growth mortality rates population dynamics population migration

Geographic Coverage

North Carolina Indiana Wyoming Utah Arizona Montana Kentucky California Kansas Florida Delaware Pennsylvania Iowa Illinois Texas Connecticut Georgia Virginia Maryland Idaho Vermont Oregon United States Oklahoma Maine Tennessee Alabama Arkansas South Carolina Washington Nebraska West Virginia Massachusetts Colorado Missouri Alaska North Dakota Wisconsin Nevada New York Rhode Island South Dakota Hawaii Minnesota New Jersey Michigan New Mexico New Hampshire Louisiana Ohio

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1870 -- 1960

Data Collection Notes

This collection was made available to ICPSR through the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-06-28

Version Date

2011-08-31

Version History

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 14 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1984-06-28 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.

2011-08-31 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

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.