Study Report
Study Number: AC-001-020-1-1-United States-ICPSR-1790
Subject Area: County
Bibliographic Citation: Historical, demographic, economic and social data: the United States, 1790-1970. [machine-readable data file] / Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [principal investigator(s)] / Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor].
Originating Archive Number: 0003
Date Accessioned: 6/16/1994
Number of Files Received: 40
Comments: This study contains state and county level data. It replaces AB-004-001 and AC-001-001 through AC-001-019. Visit the United States Historical Census Data Browser at the University of Virginia to browser the data.
Access Status: Access limited to UW-Madison campus
Date Ordered: 4/30/1994
Documentation: Two volumes hard copy documentation includes printed copies of machine-readable data maps that accompanied data files. See pdr folder for an data errata listing.
Abstract: 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.
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