YMCA World War I Service Punch Cards, United States, 1917-1919 (ICPSR 37646)

Version Date: Dec 17, 2020

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Principal Investigator(s):
National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37646.v1

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Summary

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

Citation

National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States. YMCA World War I Service Punch Cards, United States, 1917-1919. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-12-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37646.v1

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Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1917 -- 1919

Data Collection Notes

  1. For additional information on the YMCA World War I Service Punch Cards Study, please visit the Data Repository at the University of Minnesota (DRUM) website.

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Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Source

Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) administrative records

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Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2020-12-17

Version History

2020-12-17 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.

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