Data · dataset · 2007
Public Use Sample Data Files from the 12th Decennial Census of Population and Housing
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The agency provided a grant to the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, to prepare a public use sample from the 1900 Census for use by researchers.
Description
This series contains a sample of the Twelfth Census of the United States taken in 1900. The sample is a national probability sample, yielding 27,069 households comprising 100,438 individuals.
Personal names are not included in the records. The file contains a household record for each household selected in the sample, with variables describing the location and composition of the household. The household record is followed by a record for each individual who resided in that household.
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These 'person records' contain variables describing the demographic characteristics, nativity, education, and occupation of each person. Household variables include region, state and county of household, size of household, and type and ownership of dwelling. Individual variables for each household member include relationship to head of household, race, sex, age, marital status, number of children, and birthplace.
Immigration variables include parents' birthplace, year of immigration and number of years in the United States. Occupation variables include occupation, coded by both the 1900 and 1950 systems, and number of months unemployed. Education variables include number of months in school, whether respondents could read or write a language, and whether they spoke English.
This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.
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Where it is published
- Dataverse dataset page dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl%3A1902.5%2F596407 ↗
landing page · from Harvard Dataverse
- Persistent identifier hdl.handle.net/1902.5/596407 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from Harvard Dataverse
Catalogue records · 1
- Dataverse API dataverse.harvard.edu/api/datasets/:persistentId/?persistentId=hdl%3A1902.5%2F596407 ↗
metadata API · from Harvard Dataverse
Topics
- Inferred from text
- Demography 72%
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| Harvard Dataverse | hdl:1902.5/596407 | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4403 | enrichment · Harvard Dataverse | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (72%) |
| created_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | /description |
| publication_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | /name |
| updated_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 |