Census of Population, 1860 [United States]: Urban Household Sample (ICPSR 8930)

Version Date: Jul 24, 2009

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Principal Investigator(s):
Jon Moen

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08930.v3

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Summary

The Urban Household Sample of the 1860 United States Census was designed to supplement the Bateman-Foust rural sample with observations from urban areas. The sample covers both northern and southern towns and cities and permits examination of female occupations and labor force participation rates. Information on individuals includes occupation, city of residence, age, sex, race, dollar value of real and personal property owned, whether American or foreign born, and literacy. The second release of this collection adds nine constructed variables, including several weight variables, collapsed occupation, ICPSR state code, region, and unique internal family and household identifier numbers.

Citation

Moen, Jon. Census of Population, 1860 [United States]: Urban Household Sample. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-07-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08930.v3

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Funding

University of Chicago. Booth School of Business. Center for Population Economics

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1860

Date of Collection

1986

Data Collection Notes

  1. Nathanial T. Wilcox of the University of Chicago collaborated with Jon Moen for the second release of the data collection.

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Sample

Stratified random sample.

Universe

All individuals living in towns with populations of 3,000 or more who were enumerated in the 1860 Census of Population Manuscript Schedules.

Data Source

United States Bureau of the Census 1860 Manuscript Schedules

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1989-03-03

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Moen, Jon. Census of Population, 1860 [United States]: Urban Household Sample. ICPSR08930-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-07-24. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08930.v3

2009-07-24 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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