Census of Utah Territory, 1880 (ICPSR 8879)
Version Date: Aug 26, 2009 View help for published
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Lee L. Bean, Unknown
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08879.v2
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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.
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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.
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Complete enumeration.
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All persons in Utah Territory on June 1, 1880.
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census enumeration schedules
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1989-03-03
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- Bean, Lee L. Census of Utah Territory, 1880. ICPSR08879-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-08-26. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08879.v2
2009-08-26 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.
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.
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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. Please see version history for more details.

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