Southern Farms Study, 1860 (ICPSR 7419)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

Principal Investigator(s):
William N. Parker; Robert E. Gallman

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07419.v1

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Project Description

Summary

This study presents 1860 data on population and farm production in 5,228 farms located in 405 major cotton-producing counties in the South. The data was compiled from the agriculture, slave, and population schedules of the 1860 United States manuscript Census. For each farm, variables describing farm land, machinery, crops, and livestock are included, as well as production figures for specific crops and types of livestock on the farm. The population variables tabulate the free and slave residents of each farm by sex, race, and age in five- or ten-year categories.

Citation

Parker, William N., and Gallman, Robert E. Southern Farms Study, 1860. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07419.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation

Subject Terms

agricultural census agricultural land agricultural production agricultural workers agriculture Antebellum South (USA) crops economic conditions farms livestock rural population slave labor slavery Southern United States

Geographic Coverage

United States

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1860

Data Collection Notes

ICPSR added Variable 236, representing an identification number given to each farm, to the original data.

Methodology

Sample

A total of 405 counties produced over 1,000 bales of cotton in 1860. A random bloc of five farms was selected from every 280 farms located in the target counties (i.e., a five-farm bloc from every 14th page of the manuscript Census). The resulting sample thus comprised 1.67 percent of all farms in the major cotton-growing counties of the 11 states forming the Confederacy.

Universe

All farms located in Southern counties that produced over 1,000 bales of cotton in 1860.

Data Source

Schedules 1 (free population), 2 (slave population), and 4 (agricultural production) of the 1860 manuscript U.S. Census

Data Type(s)

census/enumeration data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-05-11

Version Date

1992-02-16

Version History

1984-05-11 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:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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.

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