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Great Plains Population and Environment Data: Agricultural Data, 1870-1997 [United States] (ICPSR 4254)
Released/updated on: 2005-06-22
Geographic coverage: Montana, United States, Wyoming, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, North Dakota
Time period: 1870-01-01--1997-01-01
The data in this series of studies were assembled by an interdisciplinary research team led by Myron Gutmann of the University of Michigan between 1995 and 2004, as part of a research project funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant Number R01HD033554 to the University of Michigan). The goal of the project was to amass information about approximately 500 counties in 12 states of the Great Plains of the United States, and then to analyze those data in order to understand the relationships between population and environment that existed between the years of about 1870 and 2000. The data distributed here are all data about counties. They fall into four broad categories: about the counties, about agriculture, about demographic and social conditions, and about the environment. The information about counties (name, area, identification code, and whether the project classified the county as part of the Great Plains in a given year) is embedded in each of the other data files, so that there will be three series of data (agriculture, demographic and social conditions, and environment), containing individual data files for each year for which data are available. The United States Census of Agriculture has been conducted since 1850 on a regular schedule that was decennial until 1920, and more frequently thereafter (every five years from 1925 to 1950, then in 1954, 1959, 1964, 1978, and every five years since 1982). The agricultural data included in this collection consist of a single data file for each agricultural census year between 1870 and 1997 that includes selected material compiled as part of the United States Agricultural Census. The county-level agricultural data produced by the United States government as part of the census constitute a consistent series of measures of changing agriculture and land use.
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Rural Development in Deccan Maharashtra, India: Village Panel Study, 1942-1977 (ICPSR 9308)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-18
Geographic coverage: Global, India
Time period: 1942-01-01--1977-01-01
This data collection examines the economic and occupational changes experienced over a 25-year period by families living in Sugao, a village in the state of Maharashtra, India. The residents of this village were surveyed in 1942 and 1958 to uncover aspects of their daily lives and again in 1977 to explore more fully the effects of the economic attraction of Bombay, an industrialized metropolis 150 miles away, on village life. Data were collected at both the individual and family levels. Respondents were queried on such topics as caste, gender, age, marital status, education, residence, primary, secondary, and tertiary occupations, location of occupation, years employed at occupation, income, work habits, and job classification. Families reported on their size and composition, members living outside the village, economic relationships with others, acquisition, size, and construction of housing unit, and home improvements. Information was also gathered on family income sources and, in particular, on the amount of money and goods remitted to the village by family members living and working in Bombay. Agricultural issues explored include family labor provided for farming, amount of irrigated and non-irrigated land, productivity of the land, and the type, number, and location of livestock.
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Southern Farms Study, 1860 (ICPSR 7419)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
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.
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Vietnam Life History Survey, 1991 (ICPSR 31101)
Released/updated on: 2011-08-10
Geographic coverage: Hai Duong, Long Ho, Can Tho, Vietnam (Socialist Republic)
Time period: 1926-01-01--1991-01-01
The 1991 Vietnam Life History Survey is a cross-sectional study conducted to examine households and individuals in Vietnam. A 2-part survey was conducted, the first part focused on the respondents' household as the unit of analysis, information was collected for up to 15 respondents, although most households had only 4 to 6 respondents. The second part of the survey focused on individuals, the respondent's position in the household and their personal background. In the Individual dataset, observations were collected for up to 15 of the respondent's siblings. The 2 parts examined 4 samples of about 100 households, each stratified by region and urban/rural status in Vietnam with the household survey containing 403 household responses and the individual survey containing 921 respondents. Demographic variables in the Household dataset include region, household configuration, socioeconomic status, gender, ethnicity, appliance ownership, and house construction. Demographic variables in the Individual dataset include information on parents and siblings, familial occupations, ethnicity, sex, education, job history, marital status, and children information.