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1.
This Web site provides online access to the Atlas of
Historical County Boundaries. A project of the William M. Scholl
Center for Family and Community History at the Newberry Library in
Chicago, the Atlas describes and maps every change in the boundaries
of all United States counties from the early 1600s to 2000. In
addition, the Atlas compiles and maps all changes in colonial or
territorial and state boundaries, including the evolution of the
states, plus county name changes, unsuccessful proposed counties, and
attachments of unorganized counties and non-county areas to
operational counties. Along with a detailed bibliography, citations
to the primary sources for each change, and an explanation of
different aspects of the Atlas project, the Web site enables users to
view historical state and county maps and to download historical state
and county shapefiles.
2007-01-15
2.
This study uses historical records from 36 archives in the United States to analyze 8,437 enslaved people's sale and/or appraisal prices from 1797 to 1865.
2018-07-03
3.
Biographical Characteristics of Members of the United States Congress, 1789-1979 (ICPSR 7428)
McKibbin, Carroll R.
McKibbin, Carroll R.
This study provides background information as well as data
on congressional careers and pre- and post-Congress political
office-holding for all members of the First through Ninety-sixth
Congresses of the United States. Background information includes state
of birth, year of birth, relatives also serving in Congress, military
service, private or public secondary education, college attended,
major occupation, and longest held party affiliation. Office-holding
variables document the last office held prior to and first office held
immediately after congressional service at the municipal, county,
state, and federal levels, with judicial offices treated
separately. Data on the congressional career itself include the year
first elected to Congress, number of years served in each chamber, and
the reason for leaving Congress. The data for the period from 1789 to
1960 were collected by Carroll R. McKibbin, University of
Nebraska. The data from 1961 to 1979 were prepared by ICPSR staff.
1992-02-16
4.
Birthweight Data From the Philadelphia Almshouse Hospital, 1848-1873 (ICPSR 20701)
Goldin, Claudia; Margo, Robert A.
Goldin, Claudia; Margo, Robert A.
This collection contains individual-level data on
mid-Nineteenth Century births at the Philadelphia Almshouse Hospital,
an institution for the poor and their offspring. Variables in the
dataset include age, marital status, place of birth, parity (number of
previous children), type of birth, position (1,2,3,4) of birth, day of
birth, commencement of labor, hour of delivery, times of stages of
labor, sex of infant, total length of infant, body length of infant,
birth weight, length of gestation, and total duration of labor.
2008-01-03
5.
British Parliamentary Divisions on Repeal of the Corn Laws, Including Party Affiliation of Members of Parliament and Constituency Characteristics, 1832-1846 (ICPSR 6424)
Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl
Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl
These data were gathered to explain the timing of the repeal
of the Corn Laws by developing and testing a model that links the
economic composition of British county and borough constituencies to
the voting behavior of Members of Parliament (M.P.s) on trade policy.
The model seeks to demonstrate that electoral reform and export growth
and diversification during the 1830s and the early 1840s, both
independently and through their influence on the party affiliation of
M.P.s, raised the political cost to M.P.s of maintaining a
protectionist policy, thereby contributing to the policy shift from
protectionism to free trade. The data include constituency
characteristics derived from death duty registers and income tax
returns.
1996-02-12
6.
This data collection tracks the height of boys at the
Carlschule in Stuttgart, Germany. Information includes a student
identification number, name, social status, father's profession,
occupation of the student after he left school, place of birth, month
of last measurement, year of last measurement, height measured in feet
to the nearest quarter of an inch, month of enrollment, year of
enrollment, age at enrollment, tuition paid per annum, whether any
brothers were enrolled, and identification numbers of up to three
brothers enrolled at the Carlschule.
1992-05-12
7.
The 1940 Census Tract files were originally created by
keypunching the data from the printed publications prepared by the
Bureau of the Census. The work was done under the direction of
Dr. Donald Bogue, whose wife, Elizabeth Mullen Bogue, completed much
of the data work. Subsequently, the punchcards were converted to data
files and transferred to the National Archive and Records
Administration (NARA). ICPSR received copies of these files from NARA
and converted the binary block length records to ASCII format.
2006-01-12
8.
The 1950 Census Tract files were originally created by
keypunching the data from the printed publications prepared by the
Bureau of the Census. The work was done under the direction of
Dr. Donald Bogue, whose wife, Elizabeth Mullen Bogue, completed much
of the data work. Subsequently, the punchcards were converted to data
files and transferred to the National Archive and Records
Administration (NARA). ICPSR received copies of these files from NARA
and converted the binary block-length records to ASCII format.
2006-01-12
9.
The 1960 Census Tract files were originally created by
keypunching the data from the printed publications prepared by the
Bureau of the Census. The work was done under the direction of
Dr. Donald Bogue, whose wife, Elizabeth Mullen Bogue, completed much
of the data work. Subsequently, the punchcards were converted to data
files and transferred to the National Archive and Records
Administration (NARA). ICPSR received copies of these files from NARA
and converted the binary block-length records to ASCII format.
2006-01-12
10.
The 1970 Census Tract files were originally created by
keypunching the data from the printed publications prepared by the
Bureau of the Census. The work was done under the direction of
Dr. Donald Bogue, whose wife, Elizabeth Mullen Bogue, completed much
of the data work. Subsequently, the punchcards were converted to data
files and transferred to the National Archive and Records
Administration (NARA). ICPSR received copies of these files from NARA
and converted the binary block-length records to ASCII format.
2006-01-12
11.
China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset, Liaoning (CMGPD-LN), 1749-1909 (ICPSR 27063)
Lee, James Z.; Campbell, Cameron D.
Lee, James Z.; Campbell, Cameron D.
The China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset - Liaoning (CMGPD-LN) is drawn from the population registers compiled by the Imperial Household Agency (neiwufu) in Shengjing, currently the northeast Chinese province of Liaoning, between 1749 and 1909. It provides 1.5 million triennial observations of more than 260,000 residents from 698 communities. The population mainly consists of immigrants from North China who settled in rural Liaoning during the early eighteenth century, and their descendants. The data provide socioeconomic, demographic, and other characteristics for individuals, households, and communities, and record demographic outcomes such as marriage, fertility, and mortality. The data also record specific disabilities for a subset of adult males. Additionally, the collection includes monthly and annual grain price data, custom records for the city of Yingkou, as well as information regarding natural disasters, such as floods, droughts, and earthquakes. This dataset is unique among publicly available population databases because of its time span, volume, detail, and completeness of recording, and because it provides longitudinal data not just on individuals, but on their households, descent groups, and communities.
2016-09-06
12.
China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset, Shuangcheng (CMGPD-SC), 1866-1913 (ICPSR 35292)
Campbell, Cameron D.; Lee, James Z.
Campbell, Cameron D.; Lee, James Z.
The China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset - Shuangcheng (CMGPD-SC) provides longitudinal individual, household, and community information on the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of a resettled population living in Shuangcheng, a county in present-day Heilongjiang Province of Northeastern China, for the period from 1866 to 1913. The dataset includes some 1.3 million annual observations of over 100,000 unique individuals descended from families who were relocated to Shuangcheng in the early 19th century. These families were divided into 3 categories based on their place of origin: metropolitan bannermen, rural bannermen, and floating bannermen. The CMGPD-SC, like its Liaoning counterpart, the CMGPD-LN (ICPSR 27063), is a valuable data source for studying longitudinal as well as multi-generational social and demographic processes. The population categories had salient differences in social origins and land entitlements, and landholding data are available at a number of time periods, thus the CMGPD-SC is especially suitable to the study of stratification processes.
2021-10-14
13.
Correlates of War Project: International Trade Data, 1870-2006 (ICPSR 24385)
Barbieri, Katherine; Keshk, Omar; Pollins, Brian
Barbieri, Katherine; Keshk, Omar; Pollins, Brian
The International Trade (v2.01) data compiled by the Correlates of War Project is the result of the effort to code trade flows between states (as defined by the Project) for the period 1870-2006. The data include information on both bilateral trade flows and total national imports and exports. Four data files are included with this collection: (1) dyadic trade statistics, (2) national trade statistics, and (3) and (4) supplementary information about dyadic and national trade statistics.
2010-03-08
14.
Costs and Revenues of US Daily Newspapers, 1927 and 1930, Inland Daily Press Association (ICPSR 35160)
Gentzkow, Matthew; Shapiro, Jesse; Sinkinson, Michael
Gentzkow, Matthew; Shapiro, Jesse; Sinkinson, Michael
The focus of this data collection was the costs and revenues of United States daily newspapers in 1927 and 1930. Detailed cost and revenues for 94 and 104 newspapers respectively, were obtained from tables in annual reports. Costs include mechanical, delivery and maintenance, administrative and editorial, paper and ink, costs. Revenues include local, foreign, classified, and legals and reader advertising. Data is from a non-random sample and newspaper names are unavailable.
2014-05-14
15.
This cartographic database was created at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Cartographic Laboratory in conjunction with the
Newberry Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The
collection makes it possible to plot any or all of the
territorial/state and county boundaries in the region covered by the
states of North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. The data collection also contains the
county names, the names and locations of the corresponding capitals
and county seats, and information on the shoreline along the Great
Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. All changes in lines, locations, and
names are dated to the day according to their legally effective
dates. The data collection consists of 38 data files. Part 1 contains
all of the cartesian coordinates (in digitizer units) required to
define the historical county boundaries for those 14 states. Part 2
contains the "control" needed to convert digitizer units into latitude
and longitude. The remaining 36 files contain all of the descriptive
information needed to build the appropriate cartographic base for any
given date.
2006-01-12
16.
Database of [United States] Congressional Historical Statistics, 1789-1989 (ICPSR 3371)
Swift, Elaine K.; Brookshire, Robert G.; Canon, David T.; Fink, Evelyn C.; Hibbing, John R.; Humes, Brian D.; Malbin, Michael J.; Martis, Kenneth C.
Swift, Elaine K.; Brookshire, Robert G.; Canon, David T.; Fink, Evelyn C.; Hibbing, John R.; Humes, Brian D.; Malbin, Michael J.; Martis, Kenneth C.
This data release is composed of tables from a database of United States Congressional statistics spanning the time period 1789 through 1989. The sources of the data were studies in the ICPSR collection and other historical texts and studies. There are eleven data files in total, including two additional tables that have been added since the first release. Some files contain records for additional Congresses. The rows in the various files describe different entities. For example, in the Votes Table file, each row contains a record of a vote by a particular member on a particular roll call vote. The Member Table file contains a record for each member of Congress, while the Serves Table file contains a record for each member for every Congress in which he or she served. See the descriptions of each file in the codebook for details about its contents. The data from the various files can be combined by matching the fields that they have in common. Cross-file searches should be conducted using the Member_ID field. However, not every file has the Member_ID field. In those cases, an alternative common field should be used.
2009-02-03
17.
Deflation and Real Economic Activity Under the Gold Standard (ICPSR 1151)
Neely, Christopher J.; Wood, Geoffrey E.
Neely, Christopher J.; Wood, Geoffrey E.
The data collection focuses on facts surrounding the
temporary periods of deflation that occurred under the gold standard
from 1870 to 1913.
1998-08-27
18.
Delegate Positions on All Substantive Roll Calls at the United States Constitutional Convention, 1787 (ICPSR 33865)
Dougherty, Keith L.; Heckelman, Jac C.
Dougherty, Keith L.; Heckelman, Jac C.
This data set contains 5,121 yay or nay positions (including preferences) on 620 substantive motions for 55 delegates who attended the United States Constitutional Convention held in 1787. Since delegate votes were not recorded at the Constitutional Convention -- only the votes of state delegations were recorded -- delegate votes were inferred from statements made by delegates during debate, motions and seconds, and the formal rule that the vote recorded for each state was determined by the majority of its delegation. This data set also contains state positions on each motion as well as category codes for each motion. Each observation includes the roll call number, the vote recorded for the state on the motion, and the vote or preference inferred for each delegate, including information about attendance.
2016-01-27
19.
Delegate Votes on 28 Motions at the United States Constitutional Convention, 1787 (ICPSR 24544)
Dougherty, Keith ; Heckelman, Jac C.
Dougherty, Keith ; Heckelman, Jac C.
This data set contains delegate votes on 28 motions at the United States Constitutional Convention held in 1787. Nine of the motions are related to slavery, sixteen come from a disparate list created by McDonald (1958), and four are related to public debt and currency issues (one of which is also in the second category). Since individual delegate votes were not recorded at the Constitutional Convention -- only the votes of entire state delegations were recorded -- delegate votes were inferred from delegate statements found in debates, speeches, manuscripts, and other sources, as well as the formal rule that each state's vote is determined by the majority of its delegation. Each observation includes the delegate's name, state, ICPSR-supplied state code, state vote on the motion, and the vote inferred for the delegate on the motion. The codebook describes the motion, the method by which each delegate's vote was inferred, the date of the vote, relevant pages in the Records of the Federal Convention (Farrand 1966), and the frequency of the yeas, nays, and related codes.
2009-06-24
20.
Demographic, Social, Educational and Economic Data for France, 1833-1925 (ICPSR 7529)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Prepared by ICPSR under a project to automate major
portions of the Statistique Generale de la France, this is a
collection of demographic, social, education, economic, population,
and vital statistics data for France, 1833-1925. This conversion
project is a continuation of one conducted in 1972, for which a
similar data collection was created, SOCIAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, AND
EDUCATIONAL DATA FOR FRANCE, 1801-1897 (ICPSR 0048). The project to
collect and prepare these data was sponsored by two French and two
American groups: ICPSR and the Center for Western European Studies at
the University of Michigan, and the Fourth and Sixth Sections of the
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Conseil National de la Recherches
Scientifique in France. Both collections include data recorded at the
departement, arrondissement, chef-lieu, and ville level. In this
collection, materials from the vital statistics series were prepared
for selected years rather than for each year in the period from
1900-1925. The years that were chosen clustered around the
quinquennial censuses and also included (because of the violent
demographic dislocations produced by World War I) each year in the
1914-1919 period. In addition, some vital statistics for the
nineteenth century (1836-1850, 1880, and 1892) obtained from fugitive
published volumes that could not be located during the course of the
1972 project were prepared. The 136 datasets in this collection
contain: (1) French population, economic, and social data obtained
from the quenquennial censuses of 1901, 1906, 1911, and 1921, that
detail the composition of the population by categories of age, sex,
nativity, marital status, religion, place of residence, and
occupation, (2) industrial census data for the years 1861-1896, (3)
data on primary education in France for 1833, 1901, and 1906, as well
as data on secondary and higher education in France for the years
1836-1850, 1880, and 1892, and (4) data from a separate series of
annual vital statistics (Mouvement de la Population) that cover the
years 1836-1850, 1892, and 1900-1925, citing births, deaths, and
marriages in the nation.
2010-04-27
21.
Distributions of Individuals by Type of Occupation for 54 Cities in Britain in the 1820s and 1840s (ICPSR 6423)
Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl
Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl
These data were gathered to test a public choice interest
group model integrating concentrated and deconcentrated interests with
successful lobbying. Data on hundreds of occupations, gathered from
commercial directories and court directories for 19th century British
cities and towns, were grouped into 15 categories: professional aligned
with manufacturing, professional aligned with land, nonaligned
professional, manufacturing serving export of light goods,
manufacturing serving export of heavy goods, manufacturing serving the
domestic market as well as foreign markets, manufacturing serving the
domestic market, manufacturing of farm equipment, farming, agricultural
agents serving the domestic market as well as foreign markets,
agriculture retailers and wholesalers serving the domestic market,
other retail/specialty trades/service sector, fishing and shipping,
aristocracy/landowners/gentry/titled men of independent means, and
military service. Additional information in the dataset include total
subscriptions to the Anti-Corn League (in pounds sterling), total city
population, number of widows and spinsters, and various derived
measures, e.g., export-oriented manufacturers and professionals aligned
with manufacturing as a percentage of total occupations.
1996-01-22
22.
This data collection contains electoral and demographic
data for Massachusetts counties and cities during 1848-1876. The data
for this collection were compiled to study electoral changes in
Massachusetts politics during the Civil War period and to link the
changes to socioeconomic determinants of support for the Republican
and Democratic parties. Specific variables include number of voters
for specific years and demographic information such as number of males
and females and number of males employed in certain trades. Electoral
data consists of election results.
2009-11-20
23.
This data collection incorporates county-level election
returns from 15 states for various statewide offices in the period
1874-1952. Included are votes cast for party candidates contesting
a variety of offices such as lieutenant governor, attorney general,
secretary of state, treasurer, and auditor. Data are stored in
separate files for the 15 states at the following time periods:
California (1882-1950), Colorado (1892-1952), Indiana (1876-1948),
Minnesota (1890-1948), Missouri (1882-1948), Montana (1889-1948),
Nebraska (1884-1950), New York (1878-1946), North Dakota (1889-1948),
Ohio (1886-1948), Oregon (1878-1948), Pennsylvania (1874-1948),
South Dakota (1889-1950), West Virginia (1904-1948), and
Wisconsin (1884-1950).
2006-01-12
24.
Executions in the United States, 1608-1940: The ESPY File -- Summary Data of Executions Collected by M. Watt Espy Between 1986 and 1996 (ICPSR 23900)
Espy, M. Watt; Allen, Howard; Clubb, Jerome M.
Espy, M. Watt; Allen, Howard; Clubb, Jerome M.
This collection consists of four summary variables based on new data collected by M. Watt Espy between 1986 and 1996 after he corrected and updated the data in 1992. See the related collection, EXECUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1608-2002: THE ESPY FILE (ICPSR 8451). The summary variables consist of the ethnicity of the executed, the state, territory, district or colony of execution, the decade of execution, and the geographical region of execution. They were complete as of March 1, 1996.
2008-12-12
25.
Executions in the United States, 1608-2002: The ESPY File (ICPSR 8451)
Espy, M. Watt; Smykla, John Ortiz
Espy, M. Watt; Smykla, John Ortiz
This collection furnishes data on executions performed under
civil authority in the United States between 1608 and 2002. The dataset
describes each individual executed and the circumstances surrounding
the crime for which the person was convicted. Variables include age,
race, name, sex, and occupation of the offender, place, jurisdiction,
date, and method of execution, and the crime for which the offender was
executed. Also recorded are data on whether the only evidence for the
execution was official records indicating that an individual
(executioner or slave owner) was compensated for an execution.
2016-07-20
26.
General Election Data for the United States, 1950-1990 (ICPSR 13)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
This data collection consists of national files containing
county-level returns for elections to the offices of president, United
States senator and representative, and governor. Also included are
returns for one additional statewide office (usually attorney general
or secretary of state) for those states that elected state offices in
1970 through 1990.
2013-11-22
27.
The Gold Standard, Bretton Woods and Other Monetary Regimes: A Historical Appraisal (ICPSR 1077)
Bordo, Michael D.; Institute for International Economics and University of Bonn
Bordo, Michael D.; Institute for International Economics and University of Bonn
These data and/or computer programs are part of ICPSR's
Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived
from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this
material. Users should consult the INVESTIGATOR(S) if further
information is desired.
1996-01-03
28.
Great Plains Population and Environment Data: Agricultural Data, 1870-1997 [United States] (ICPSR 4254)
Gutmann, Myron P.
Gutmann, Myron P.
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.
2005-06-22
29.
Great Plains Population and Environment Data: Biogeochemical Modeling Data, 1860-2003 [United States] (ICPSR 31681)
Parton, William J.; Gutmann, Myron P.; Hartman, Melannie D.; Merchant, Emily R.; Lutz, Susan M.
Parton, William J.; Gutmann, Myron P.; Hartman, Melannie D.; Merchant, Emily R.; Lutz, Susan M.
This study is part of a series of studies 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 1860 and 2003. The data distributed as part of this series are all data about counties. They fall into four broad categories: information 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.
Specifically, this study contains environmental data and is meant to aid the modeling of the biogeochemical effects of cropping in the Great Plains region. These data were generated by the Daycent ecosystem model, which has been used extensively to simulate soil biogeochemical dynamics from agricultural systems throughout the United States. Variables include information on above-ground production, soil and system carbon, evaporation and transpiration data, soil temperature, nitrogen mineralization, and fluxes of various chemical compounds.
2012-10-04
30.
Great Plains Population and Environment Data: Social and Demographic Data, 1870-2000 [United States] (ICPSR 4296)
Gutmann, Myron P.
Gutmann, Myron P.
The social and demographic data included in this
collection consist of a single data file for each decennial year
between 1870 and 2000, covering 10 of the 12 Great Plains states.
Information on a variety of social and demographic topics was gathered
to historically characterize populations living in counties within the
United States Great Plains, in terms of: (1) urban, rural, and total
population, (2) vital statistics, (3) net migration, (4) age and sex,
(5) nativity and ancestry, (6) education and literacy, (7) religion,
(8) industry, and (9) housing and other characteristics. These data
include selected material compiled as part of the United States
population census. The United States Census of Population and Housing
has been conducted since 1790 on a regular schedule that is
decennial. The county-level social and demographic data produced by
the United States government as a result constitute a consistent
series of measures capturing changes in the United States population's
size, composition, and other characteristics. A subset of the
variables available from the short and long-form survey questionnaires
of the United States Census of Population and Housing (as compiled for
counties) were extracted from previously existing digital files.
Besides the decennial census of the population, county-level data were
drawn from an assortment of existing digital files as well as sources
that were manually digitized. Other data include compilations of
county-level information gathered from various federal agencies and
private organizations as well as the agriculture and economic
censuses. Supplementing these compilations are manually digitized
consumer market data, religious data, and vital statistics, including
information about births, deaths, marriage, and divorce.
2007-02-07
31.
This data collection is a supplement to the study AMERICAN COLONIAL WEALTH ESTIMATES, 1774 (ICPSR 7329). It contains data on the the number, types and values of firearms and blade-edge weapons, and the number of servants and slaves, owned by 919 decedents having resided in 21 colonial counties. Demographic information includes age of decedents and the date the probate inventory was taken.
2008-08-27
32.
This data collection tracks the height of students at the
Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, during the French Revolution
and the period following economic growth. Information includes month
of enrollment, year of enrollment, month of birth, year of birth,
province, town, height measurement in centimeters, head of family, and
occupation of parent.
1998-02-18
33.
Historical County Estimate Files: Population Estimates of the United States, States and Counties, 1980-1989 (ICPSR 25362)
United States. Bureau of the Census
United States. Bureau of the Census
The intercensal formula for the 1980s is described in Current
Population Reports, Series P25-1106. The formula was applied to both
state and county estimates. The intercensal estimates are based on
census counts which include the latest corrections available at the
time of production. The methodology for the 1980s postcensal estimates
estimates is described in P26-88A, and in several technical papers
emanating from the Population Estimates Branch.
Additional information can be found on the U. S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Website.
2011-06-07
34.
Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-1970 (ICPSR 3)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Detailed county and state-level ecological or descriptive
data for the United States for the years 1790 to 1970 are contained in
this collection. These data files contain extensive information about
the social and political character of the United States, including a
breakdown of population by state, race, nationality, number of
families, size of the family, births, deaths, marriages, occupation,
religion, and general economic conditions. Though not complete over the
full time span of this study, statistics are available on such diverse
subjects as total numbers of newspapers and periodicals, total capital
invested in manufacturing, total numbers of educational institutions,
total number of churches, taxation by state, and land surface area in
square miles.
2005-12-22
35.
Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2002 (ICPSR 2896)
Haines, Michael R.; Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Haines, Michael R.; Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
This data collection contains detailed county and
state-level ecological and descriptive data for the United States for
the years 1790 to 2002. Parts 1-43 are an update to HISTORICAL,
DEMOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DATA: THE UNITED STATES, 1790-1970
(ICPSR 0003). Parts 1-41 contain data from the 1790-1970 censuses.
They include extensive information about the social and political
character of the United States, including a breakdown of population by
state, race, nationality, number of families, size of the family,
births, deaths, marriages, occupation, religion, and general economic
condition. Parts 42 and 43 contain data from the 1840 and 1870
Censuses of Manufacturing, respectively. These files include
information about the number of persons employed in various industries
and the quantities of different types of manufactured products. Parts
44-50 provide county-level data from the United States Census of
Agriculture for 1840 to 1900. They also include the state and national
totals for the variables. The files provide data about the number,
types, and prices of various agricultural products. Parts 51-57
contain data on religious bodies and church membership for 1906, 1916,
1926, 1936, and 1952, respectively. Parts 58-69 consist of data from
the CITY DATA BOOKS for 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1962, 1967, 1972,
1977, 1983, 1988, 1994, and 2000, respectively. These files contain
information about population, climate, housing units, hotels, birth
and death rates, school enrollment and education expenditures,
employment in various industries, and city government finances. Parts
70-81 consist of data from the COUNTY DATA BOOKS for 1947, 1949, 1952,
1956, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1983, 1988, 1994, and 2000,
respectively. These files include information about population,
employment, housing, agriculture, manufacturing, retail, services,
trade, banking, Social Security, local governments, school enrollment,
hospitals, crime, and income. Parts 82-84 contain data from USA
COUNTIES 1998. Due to the large number of variables from this source,
the data were divided into into three separate data files. Data
include information on population, vital statistics, school
enrollment, educational attainment, Social Security, labor force,
personal income, poverty, housing, trade, farms, ancestry, commercial
banks, and transfer payments. Parts 85-106 provide data from the United States Census of Agriculture for 1910 to 2002. They provide data about the amount, types, and prices of various agricultural products. Also, these datasets contain extensive information on the amount, expenses, sales, values, and production of farms and machinery.
2010-05-21
36.
The Army Map Service was a cartographic agency that focused on the compilation, publication, and distribution of military topographic maps. This collection contains georeferenced historical maps of India and Pakistan collected from 1955-1963 from the U502 series.
The maps are provided as TIFF files that include spatial references that can be read by GIS software. These maps are organized by segments which are then divided into square tiles. The corners of each of these tiles contain an anchor point with corresponding coordinates alongside additional anchor points like a: coastal region, legend, glossary, scale, and a location diagram.
2021-01-25
37.
Historical United States Money Growth, Inflation, and Inflation Credibility (ICPSR 1198)
Dewald, William G.
Dewald, William G.
This research focuses on the longer-term monetary
relationships in historical data. Charts describing the 10-year
average growth rates in the M2 monetary aggregate, nominal GDP, real
GDP, and inflation are used to show that there is a consistent
longer-term correlation between M2 growth, nominal GDP growth, and
inflation but not between such nominal variables and real GDP
growth. The data reveal extremely long cycles in monetary growth and
inflation, the most recent of which was the strong upward trend in M2
growth, nominal GDP growth, and inflation during the 1960s and 1970s,
and the strong downward trend since then. Data going back to the 19th
century show that the most recent inflation/disinflation cycle is a
repetition of earlier long monetary growth and inflation cycles in the
United States historical record. Also discussed is a measure of bond
market inflation credibility, defined as the difference between
averages in long-term bond rates and real GDP growth. By this measure,
inflation credibility hovered close to zero during the 1950s and early
1960s, but then rose to a peak of about 10 percent in the early
1980s. During the 1990s, the bond market has yet to restore the low
inflation credibility that existed before inflation turned up during
the 1960s. The conclusion is that the risks of starting another costly
inflation/disinflation cycle could be avoided by monitoring monetary
growth and maintaining a sufficiently tight policy to keep inflation
low. An environment of credible price stability would allow the
economy to function unfettered by inflationary distortions, which is
all that can reasonably be expected of monetary policy, and is
precisely what should be expected.
1999-06-23
38.
The Historical Urban Ecological (HUE) data project was created for exploring and analyzing the urban health environments of seven major United States cities - Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Manhattan, and Philidelphia - from 1830 through 1930. The data for each city includes ward boundary changes, street networks, and ward-level data on disease, mortality, crime, and other variables reported by municipal departments.
The HUE data set was produced for the "Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease and Death" project, funded by the National Institute of Aging.
This collection represents the GIS data for each of the seven American cities, and in addition to ward boundary changes and street networks, includes in-street sewer and water sanitation systems coverage. All cities except Cincinnati include sanitation infrastructure data, and for Baltimore only water infrastructure is available. The city of Chicago includes supplemental GIS layers which reflect a reconstruction of two of Homer Hoyt's maps of average land value (1933 dollars) in the City of Chicago for 1873 and 1892. The square mile areas defined by Hoyt using Chicago's system of mile streets have been fit to the HUE street centerlines for Chicago. The Excel data tables include information about deaths in each ward broken down by cause of death, age, race, gender, as well as information about live births and deliveries.
2015-11-16
39.
Homicides in New York City, 1797-1999 [And Various Historical Comparison Sites] (ICPSR 3226)
Monkkonen, Eric
Monkkonen, Eric
There has been little research on United States homicide
rates from a long-term perspective, primarily because there has been
no consistent data series on a particular place preceding the Uniform
Crime Reports (UCR), which began its first full year in 1931. To fill
this research gap, this project created a data series on homicides per
capita for New York City that spans two centuries. The goal was to
create a site-specific, individual-based data series that could be
used to examine major social shifts related to homicide, such as mass
immigration, urban growth, war, demographic changes, and changes in
laws. Data were also gathered on various other sites, particularly in
England, to allow for comparisons on important issues, such as the
post-World War II wave of violence. The basic approach to the data
collection was to obtain the best possible estimate of annual counts
and the most complete information on individual homicides. The annual
count data (Parts 1 and 3) were derived from multiple sources,
including the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports
and Supplementary Homicide Reports, as well as other official counts
from the New York City Police Department and the City Inspector in the
early 19th century. The data include a combined count of murder and
manslaughter because charge bargaining often blurs this legal
distinction. The individual-level data (Part 2) were drawn from
coroners' indictments held by the New York City Municipal Archives,
and from daily newspapers. Duplication was avoided by keeping a record
for each victim. The estimation technique known as "capture-recapture"
was used to estimate homicides not listed in either source. Part 1
variables include counts of New York City homicides, arrests, and
convictions, as well as the homicide rate, race or ethnicity and
gender of victims, type of weapon used, and source of data. Part 2
includes the date of the murder, the age, sex, and race of the
offender and victim, and whether the case led to an arrest, trial,
conviction, execution, or pardon. Part 3 contains annual homicide
counts and rates for various comparison sites including Liverpool,
London, Kent, Canada, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Seattle, and San
Francisco.
2006-03-30
40.
This data collection was designed to study changes in
American inheritance patterns over three centuries. Major areas of
investigation include equality of treatment among children, legacies to
sons versus daughters, estate planning strategies, treatment of spouse
in will, women's testamentary power, charitable bequests, bequests to
extended kin and non-kin, legacies of chattel, realty, and financial
assets, and the naming of executors and guardians.
2006-01-12
41.
This study of the structure of the international system
and its consequences for national war behavior is composed of three
distinct types of data: Member Characteristic Data, Subsystem Data,
and War Data, consisting of Richardson's Deadly Quarrel Data,
Wright's War Data, Singer and Small's War Data, and Sorokins'
Disturbance Data. In the Member Characteristic Data, each member
of each subsystem is the unit of observation and the national
characteristics of each member are reported. In the Subsystem Data,
21 subsystems constitute the unit of observation, with variables
recording the number of members, wars, alliances, and polarity of
each subsystem. The War Data report the war behavior of each of
the 21 subsystems, with one record for each war as reported in the
four major studies of war from which they were compiled.
1992-02-16
42.
Introduction of Television to the United States Media Market, 1946-1960 (ICPSR 22720)
Gentzkow, Matthew; Shapiro, Jesse M.
Gentzkow, Matthew; Shapiro, Jesse M.
This study catalogs the introduction of television to media markets in the United States. The file titled, "TV Station Diffusion by DMA, 1946-1960," lists the name and the start date of the first commercial television station in each Nielsen media market (DMA) in the United States. This dataset uses the 2002/2003 definitions of Nielsen media markets. The file titled, "TV Set Diffusion by United States County, 1950-1960," lists by county the number of households that own television sets for the years 1950 and 1953-1960. This study also includes a file titled, "Crosswalk -- County to DMA," that matches each county to its respective DMA(s).
2008-09-30
43.
Labor Force Participation Rate, Michigan, 1976-2018 (ICPSR 37210)
Michigan. Department of Technology, Management & Budget
Michigan. Department of Technology, Management & Budget
These data are publicly available as part of Michigan's Open Data Portal and are updated regularly by the state. The labor force participation rate is a measure of the labor force as a percentage of the civilian non-institutional population aged 16 years or older. During the latter half of the twentieth century, the labor force participation rate increased dramatically, largely driven by an increasing number of women joining the labor force. Since 2001, the rate has steadily declined, exacerbated by the 2001 and 2008 recessions.
This release features monthly labor force participation rates for January 1976 through September 2018.
2018-12-14
44.
The first file in this data collection provides information
on the delegates to the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1870.
Data include delegate's name, age, party affiliation, county and
legislative district, and voting decision on several issues. The second
file pertains to the local context of the vote for the Illinois
Constitution of 1870, which involved a separate vote on the article
forbidding lending by local government to railroads. Variables in the
second data file include county, town, city, and total debts, town,
city, and total population, assessed value on improvement of city and
town lots, land, and railroads, number of towns and cities in each
county, and number of corporations in each county.
2010-02-24
45.
There has been little research on United States homicide
rates from a long-term perspective, primarily because there has been
no consistent data series on a particular place preceding the Uniform
Crime Reports (UCR), which began its first full year in 1931. To fill
this research gap, this project created a data series that spans two
centuries on homicides per capita for the city of Los Angeles. The
goal was to create a site-specific, individual-based data series that
could be used to examine major social shifts related to homicide, such
as mass immigration, urban growth, war, demographic changes, and
changes in laws. The basic approach to the data collection was to
obtain the best possible estimate of annual counts and the most
complete information on individual homicides. Data were derived from
multiple sources, including Los Angeles court records, as well as
annual reports of the coroner and daily newspapers. Part 1 (Annual
Homicides and Related Data) variables include Los Angeles County
annual counts of homicides, counts of female victims, method of
killing such as drowning, suffocating, or strangling, and the homicide
rate. Part 2 (Individual Homicide Data) variables include the date and
place of the murder, the age, sex, race, and place of birth of the
offender and victim, type of weapon used, and source of data.
2012-08-22
46.
This is a compilation of the Massachusetts state censuses from 1855 to 1915. The results are given by state, county, and town. The references are taken from U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. U.S. Library of Congress, Reference Dept. State Censuses: an annotated bibliography of censuses of population taken after the year 1790 by States and Territories of the United States. Prepared by Henry J. Dubester, Chief, Census Library Project, Library of Congress. Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948. There was a special tabulation of the 1880 U.S. Census for Massachusetts with detailed town-level data. The state censuses of 1855, 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, and 1915 are covered. The state census of 1925 had more limited information and was not included.
2022-03-09
47.
This collection presents information from the 1880 census
of manufacturing in 36 states and the District of Columbia. It was
originally collected to paint a quantitative picture of
industrialization in the United States. The data describe states and
counties in terms of urban or rural, amount of capital invested, and
numbers of male, female, and child workers employed. Additional
information includes daily wage for skilled and unskilled labor,
annual wage bill, hours in ordinary day's labor, number of waterwheels
and steam engines, and horsepower by water or steam.
2004-10-08
48.
National Samples from the Census of Manufacturing: 1850, 1860, and 1870 (ICPSR 4048)
Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Weiss, Thomas
Atack, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Weiss, Thomas
This collection presents information from the census of
manufacturing in states and the District of Columbia. It was
constructed from the STATE SAMPLES FROM THE CENSUS OF MANUFACTURING:
1850, 1860, AND 1870 (ICPSR 4071). The data were originally collected
to paint a quantitative picture of industrialization in the United
States without the need to weight the results. The data describe states
and counties in terms of amount of capital invested and numbers of male,
female, and child workers employed. Additional information includes
daily wages for men, women, and children, annual wage bill, number of
waterwheels and steam engines, and horsepower by water or steam.
2006-03-30
49.
Odum Institute for Research in Social Science (IRSS) (ICPSR 126)
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Housed at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science maintains the country's third-largest archive of
computer-readable social science data. Its holdings include national
and international economic, electoral, demographic, financial, health,
and public opinion data. Odum Institute maintains a Web-based, searchable
catalog of the studies and series in its data
holdings.
2006-04-03
50.
Parenthood in Early Twentieth-Century America Project (PETCAP), 1900-1944 (ICPSR 6876)
LaRossa, Ralph
LaRossa, Ralph
The purpose of this data collection was to provide
information on parenting in general and on fathers' roles in particular
in the early part of the twentieth century in the United States. The
collection comprises transcriptions of original handwritten and
published materials relating to infant and child care dating from the
turn of the century into World War II. There are three types of data
in the collection: (1) popular magazine articles, (2) letters to
educator and author Angelo Patri (1876-1965) and his replies, and (3)
letters to the United States Children's Bureau, along with the
Bureau's replies. The popular magazine data files include
transcriptions of original magazine articles indexed under the
READER'S GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE categories of "father,"
"mother," and "parent," published between 1900 and 1942. In
addition to the text of the articles, other information contained in
each data file includes the author of the article, index
classification (father, mother, or parent), year the article was
published, magazine name and volume number, and gender of the
article's author. The Children's Bureau data include advice-seeking
letters from fathers and mothers and the Bureau's replies, written
between 1915 and 1944. Beyond the actual text of the letters, other
information includes the initials and title of the letter's author,
location of the letter within the National Archives (box number),
Bureau subject classification codes for the box that the letter came
from, time period covered by the letters in the box, Bureau subject
classification code(s) for each letter, date of the letter, return
address (city and state), and gender of the letter's author. Also
included are the name of the Children's Bureau staff member who wrote
the reply, the date of the reply, and the text of the reply itself. The Angelo
Patri data include the text of advice-seeking letters from both
fathers and mothers and Patri's replies to them, as well as Patri's
newspaper columns and scripts from his radio show. The Patri letters were
primarily written between 1924 and 1939. Other information in each
Patri data file includes the location of the document in the Library
of Congress (box number and date), date of the letter, return address
(city and state), gender of the author of the letter, and date of the
reply.
2009-08-11