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Historical Analogies, Generational Effects, and Attitudes Toward War in the United States, October 1990-February 1991 (ICPSR 9959)

Released/updated on: 1993-05-13
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1990-10-01--1991-02-01
This data collection explores the attitudes of different generations of Americans toward war. Questions pertained to respondents' views of the Cold War, World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. Respondents were also asked for their opinions of Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler, and for their views regarding President George Bush's declaration that force was necessary to make Iraq withdraw completely from Kuwait. A portion of the interviews were conducted before the Persian Gulf War (up to and including January 15), some were conducted during the War (January 17 and later), and others the day the bombing started (January 16). Questions were also asked about the respondent's educational background, month and year of birth, race or ethnic origin, and sex.
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War, Coal, and Forced Labor: Assessing the Impact of Prisoner-of-War Employment on Coal Mine Productivity in World War I Germany (ICPSR 128721)

Released/updated on: 2020-12-13
Geographic coverage: Germany
Time period: 1911-01-01--1920-01-01
This paper assesses the causal relationship between POW assignments and labor productivity for a vital sector of the German World War I economy, namely coal mining. Prisoners of war (POWs) provided significant labor. Combining data on all Ruhr mines with a treatment-effects approach, I find that POW employment alone accounted for 36% of the average POW-employing mine’s annual productivity decline over wartime. Estimates also suggest that the representative POW’s productivity averaged 32% of the representative regular miner’s productivity, and that POWs’ contribution to wartime coal output amounted to 3.9%. Violence did not serve as a powerful work incentive. The deposited files include a stata-file containing the data, a word-file containing the stata-code needed to replicate the results shown in the paper, and an excel-file containing the data on two figures.
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YMCA World War I Service Punch Cards, United States, 1917-1919 (ICPSR 37646)

Released/updated on: 2020-12-17
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1917-01-01--1919-01-01

In the course of staffing its assigned operations and the other activities in support of the armed forces during World War I, the American Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) recruited a grand total of 25,926 workers who, about equally divided between home and overseas assignments, served under the auspices of the organization. A partially machine-readable punch card was generated for each worker, including some or all of the following data: name, gender (men are on buff cards, women on white), African American Y/N (blue cards), year of birth, address, occupation, work placement, placement date, salary, date left or returned, qualifications, religion, placed home versus overseas, marital status, and education. The cards, which total approximately 27,600 including cross-reference cards, were digitized by the University of Minnesota Libraries and subsequently transcribed and indexed by FamilySearch International. The datasets include:

  • DS1: Decoded data from all 27,000+ punch cards, including the name of the scanned image file that corresponds to that record
  • DS2: Technical metadata for the digital scans
  • DS3: Transcribed data from crowdsourcing via the Zooniverse platform

Additionally, there is a zip package that contains the scanned images of all 27,000+ punch cards

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