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Census of Utah Territory, 1880 (ICPSR 8879)

Published: Aug 26, 2009

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Principal Investigator(s):
Lee L. Bean

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08879.v2

Version V2

Summary

The following information is reported for every individual enumerated in this census of the Utah Territory: name (last, first, middle), age, sex, race, marital status, occupation, ability to read and write, place of birth, parents' places of birth, place of residence, presence of illness or handicap, relationship to the head of the family, and whether or not a person was married, employed, or in school during the 12 months immediately preceding the census.

Citation

Bean, Lee L. Census of Utah Territory, 1880. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-08-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08879.v2

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health (HD-15455)

Time Period(s)

1880-06-01

Date of Collection

1880-06

Data Collection Notes

The 1880 Census of Utah Territory was computerized as part of a research project entitled the Mormon Historical Project. This dataset contains information on 142,711 of the 143,963 individuals enumerated in that census.

Sample

Complete enumeration.

Universe

All persons in Utah Territory on June 1, 1880.

Data Source

census enumeration schedules

Data Type(s)

census data

Original Release Date

1989-03-03

Version Date

2009-08-26

Version History

1989-03-03 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.

2009-08-26 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.

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