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Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Web Site (ICPSR 170)
Released/updated on: 2007-01-15
Geographic coverage: United States
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.
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Characteristics of Asian States, 1956-1968 (ICPSR 5017)
Released/updated on: 2009-09-17
Geographic coverage: Myanmar, Afghanistan, Cambodia, United States, Sri Lanka, Japan, Philippines, China (Peoples Republic), Malaysia, Thailand, Global, India, New Zealand, South Korea, Great Britain, Pakistan, Asia, Taiwan, Australia, France, Laos, Soviet Union, Indonesia, Vietnam (Socialist Republic)
Time period: 1956-01-01--1968-01-01
This data collection consists of information on the physical, geographical, and demographic characteristics of 17 Asian states in the period 1956-1968. Data are provided for the geographical area of the states, the percentage of the states' populations that were Chinese, and the air distance between the Asian states' capitals and the United States, Communist China, Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain.
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Geographic Names Information System: National Geographic Names Data Base, Populated Places in the United States (Phase II) (ICPSR 9515)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-17
Geographic coverage: United States
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is an automated data system developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to standardize and disseminate information on geographic names. GNIS provides primary information for all known places, features, and areas in the United States identified by proper name. The data file described here is a standard report file written from the National Geographic Names Data Base that lists all populated place records in GNIS for the United States. The entries are sorted by state and then listed alphabetically by feature name. Information provided includes the official placename, the feature type, the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) code referencing the state, the principal county in which the place is located, the geographic coordinates (in degrees, minutes, and seconds) that locate the approximate original center of the place, the year of any pertinent United States Board on Geographic Names activity regarding the placename or its application, and a reference to the 1:24,000-scale USGS topographic map on which the feature is portrayed. The elevation in feet is given if available, as is the 1980 Census population figure.
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Human Capital Growth in a Cross Section of U.S. Metropolitan Areas (ICPSR 1329)
Released/updated on: 2006-10-02
Geographic coverage: United States
Human capital growth, defined as the change in the fraction of a metropolitan area's labor force with a bachelor's degree, is typically viewed as generating a number of desirable outcomes, including economic growth. Yet, in spite of its importance, few empirical studies have explored why some economies accumulate more human capital than others. This paper attempts to do so using a sample of more than 200 metropolitan areas in the United States over the years 1980, 1990, and 2000. The results reveal two consistently significant correlates of human capital growth: population and the existing stock of college-educated labor. Given that population growth and human capital growth are both positively associated with education, these results suggest that the geographic distributions of population and human capital should have become more concentrated in recent decades. That is, larger, more-educated metropolitan areas should have exhibited the fastest rates of increase in both population and education and thus 'pulled away' from smaller, less-education metropolitan areas. The evidence largely supports this conclusion.
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Norwegian Ecological Data, 1949-1961 (ICPSR 40)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Norway, Europe
Time period: 1949-01-01--1961-01-01
This study contains election and census data for 732 Norwegian communes in the period 1949-1961. Election returns are available for the elections of 1949, 1953, 1957, and 1961. In addition, data from the censuses of 1950 and 1960 are presented, including information on demography, education, modernization, the economy, and occupational structure, and contextual information about clusters of neighboring communes. Data are provided on the total number of registered voters and the total number of votes cast for the Norwegian Communist Party, the Norwegian Labour Party, the Liberal Party (Venstre), the Christian People's Party, the Agrarian Party (the Centre Party), the Conservative Party (Hoyre), and other political parties. Additional variables provide information on age and educational levels for males and females, the total number of economically active population employed in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, manufacturing, and construction, the total value of industrial production, and the total number of private households and occupied housing units.
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Simple Crosstabs
Philadelphia Social History Project: Grid Data, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 (ICPSR 34982)
Released/updated on: 2014-07-30
Geographic coverage: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This component of the Philadelphia Social History Project examines the demographic composition of city grid squares using census data from years 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880. The collection consists of two types of data files: (1) grid tallies, and (2) grid dictionaries. The grid tally files consist of counts of individuals living in PSHP grid squares, with totals broken down by race/ethnicity, sex, and age. The grid dictionary files link lines in the census manuscripts to PSHP grid squares, allowing users to follow the movements of census-takers as they moved house-to-house on foot, adding individuals to the printed census manuscript forms. The "grid" network consists of a set of vertical and horizontal lines drawn at fixed intervals across a city map, forming the foundation for the spatial organization of the data. The grid dictionary files show when census-takers crossed from one grid square to another; each row in the grid dictionary describes a set of rows that are in a specific grid square by listing the starting page/line and the ending page/line.
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Puerto Rico Census Project, 1910 (ICPSR 4343)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-16
Geographic coverage: Puerto Rico, United States, Global
The data comprising the Puerto Rico Census Project, 1910
contain individual and household records drawn from the 1910 Puerto
Rican Population Census. The data include variables containing basic
demographic information such as age, sex, race, marital status, number
of children born and surviving, family size, place of birth,
immigration status, county and neighborhood of residence, urban/rural
status, and citizenship. The data also describe language proficiency,
literacy, school attendance, and disabilities (blind or deaf) of the
individuals. Other variables provide data on occupation, industry,
ownership of residence, status of mortgage, and farm ownership. There
are four classifications of variables belonging to this dataset:
original input variables, coded variables, constructed variables, and
quality flag variables. The original input variables contain the raw
data collected by the enumerators. The coded variables are variables
that were recoded by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center (UWSC)
as part of the Puerto Rico Census Project. Constructed variables were
produced by UWSC to capture additional relevant information. For
example, one constructed variable measures literacy by combining
separate variables containing data on whether the individual could
read and if they could write. Finally, quality flag variables were
created by UWSC to indicate whether it could be logically deduced that
individual records had been hand edited by the Census Office.
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Puerto Rico Census Project, 1920 (ICPSR 4344)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-16
Geographic coverage: Puerto Rico, United States, Global
The data comprising the Puerto Rico Census Project, 1920
contain individual and household records drawn from the 1920 Puerto
Rican Population Census. The data include variables containing basic
demographic information such as age, sex, race, marital status, number
of children born and surviving, family size, place of birth,
immigration status, county and neighborhood of residence, urban/rural
status, and citizenship. The data also describe language proficiency,
literacy, school attendance, and disabilities (blind or deaf) of the
individuals. Other variables provide data on occupation, industry,
ownership of residence, status of mortgage, and farm ownership. There
are four classifications of variables belonging to this dataset:
original input variables, coded variables, constructed variables, and
quality flag variables. The original input variables contain the raw
data collected by the enumerators. The coded variables are variables
that were recoded by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center (UWSC)
as part of the Puerto Rico Census Project. Constructed variables were
produced by UWSC to capture additional relevant information. For
example, one constructed variable measures literacy by combining
separate variables containing data on whether the individual could
read and if they could write. Finally, quality flag variables were
created by UWSC to indicate whether it could be logically deduced that
individual records had been hand edited by the Census Office.
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Urban Composition of United States Counties, 1850 (ICPSR 7455)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
This dataset contains several measures of urban concentration for each of the 1,606 United States counties in existence in 1850. Included are measures of the white and total populations in each county, as well as percentages of the white and total populations that resided in towns of various sizes. Town-level population counts were collected from Tables I and II of the SEVENTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1850. The principal investigator manually aggregated individual town counts to various town size measures, and calculated percentages of county population totals. Variables on total and white populations of each county were added to this data collection by ICPSR, from HISTORICAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DATA: THE UNITED STATES, 1790-1970 (ICPSR 0003).
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World Population, 1973 (ICPSR 5032)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Benin, Papua New Guinea, Angola, Cambodia, Sudan, Paraguay, Portugal, Syria, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, North Korea, Bahamas, Grenada, Gibralter, Greece, Mongolia, Morocco, Iran, Montserrat, Mali, Panama, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Virgin Islands of the United States, Iraq, Chile, Laos, Nepal, Argentina, Tanzania, Seychelles, Zambia, Ghana, Belize, Bahrain, India, Canada, Maldives, Turkey, Belgium, Namibia, Taiwan, Finland, Comoros, Faroe Islands, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands Antilles, Central African Republic, Jamaica, Peru, Germany, Yemen, Vietnam (Socialist Republic), Puerto Rico, Fiji, United States, Guinea, China (Peoples Republic), Chad, Somalia, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Thailand, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Western Samoa, Costa Rica, Sweden, Malawi, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Poland, Kuwait, Nigeria, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Uruguay, Sri Lanka, Cook Islands, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Switzerland, Spain, French Polynesia, Lebanon, Brunei, Liberia, Cuba, Venezuela, Czech Republic, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Saint Lucia, Swaziland, Israel, San Marino, Australia, Soviet Union, Myanmar, Cameroon, Cyprus, Bermuda Islands, Malaysia, Iceland, Global, Oman, Gabon, South Korea, Great Britain, Austria, Yugoslavia, Mozambique, El Salvador, Luxembourg, Brazil, Guam, Algeria, Lesotho, Tonga, Antigua and Barbuda, Ecuador, Colombia, Hungary, Japan, Mauritius, Albania, New Zealand, Senegal, Italy, Honduras, Ethiopia, Haiti, Afghanistan, Burundi, Singapore, French Guiana, Egypt, American Samoa, Sierra Leone, Bolivia, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Cape Verde, Netherlands, Pakistan, Gambia, Ireland, Qatar, Martinique, France, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Reunion, Bhutan, Romania, Togo, Niger, Philippines, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Barbados, Norway, Sao tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Macao, Mexico, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Suriname, Indonesia
This data collection contains basic demographic information for approximately 196 nations in 1973. Data are provided for the estimated number of population, births and deaths per 1,000 population in 1972, the number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births, the percentage rate of natural population increase, the number of years it took for the population to double, the percentage of the population aged 15 and under, life expectancy at birth in 1972, the median age of the mother, the median birth order, and the percentage of urban population.