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Census Tree Links
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame; Joseph Price, Brigham Young University
Version: View help for Version V1
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Project Citation:
Buckles, Kasey, and Price, Joseph. Census Tree Links. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-07-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E144904V1
Project Description
Summary:
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The data sets in this repository allow users to link people among the U.S. decennial censuses, using the "histid" identifier. The census data sets users will need are indexed by Ancestry.com and are hosted by IPUMS at https://usa.ipums.org/usa-action/samples. Users will need to download the full-count census for each year and be sure to select the "histid" variable that is available under the Person/Historical Technical drop-down menu.
As of 7/12/21, links are available between the 1900-1910, 1910-1920, and 1900-1920 censuses.
A detailed account of how these links are created and a description of the data and its characteristics are available in the following article:
Price, J., Buckles, K., Van Leeuwen, J., & Riley, I. (2021). Combining family history and machine learning to link historical records: The Census Tree data set. Explorations in Economic History, 80, 101391.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498321000024
As of 7/12/21, links are available between the 1900-1910, 1910-1920, and 1900-1920 censuses.
A detailed account of how these links are created and a description of the data and its characteristics are available in the following article:
Price, J., Buckles, K., Van Leeuwen, J., & Riley, I. (2021). Combining family history and machine learning to link historical records: The Census Tree data set. Explorations in Economic History, 80, 101391.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498321000024
Funding Sources:
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Russell Sage Foundation (G-1063)
Scope of Project
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1900 – 1920
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