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Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:3463
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03463
 
Title:Agricultural and Demographic Records for Rural Households in the North, 1860: [Instructional Materials]
 
Principal Investigator(s):James W. Oberly, University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire
 
Funding Agency:University of Wisconsin Office of Instructional Development.
 
Bibliographic Citation:Oberly, James W. AGRICULTURAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC RECORDS FOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN THE NORTH, 1860: [INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS] [Computer file]. Prepared by James W. Oberly, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Dept. of History. ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2002. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03463
 

Scope of Study

Summary:These instructional materials were prepared for use with AGRICULTURAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC RECORDS FOR HOUSEHOLDS IN THE NORTH, 1860 (ICPSR 7420), compiled by Fred Bateman and James D. Foust. The data file and accompanying documentation are provided to assist educators in (an SPSS portable file) instructing students about the history of agriculture and rural life in the North, just prior to the Civil War. An instructor's handout has also been included. This handout contains the following sections, among others: (1) General goals for student analysis of quantitative datasets, (2) Specific goals in studying this dataset, (3) Suggested appropriate courses for use of the dataset, (4) Tips for using the dataset, and (5) Related secondary source readings. Demographic, occupational, and economic information for over 21,000 rural households in the northern United States in 1860 are presented in the dataset. The data were obtained from the manuscript agricultural and population schedules of the 1860 United States Census and are provided for all households in a single township from each of the 102 randomly-selected counties in 16 northern states. Variables in the dataset include farm values, livestock, and crop production figures for the households that owned or operated farms (over half the households sampled), as well as value of real and personal estate, color, sex, age, literacy, school attendance, occupation, place of birth, and parents' nationality of all individuals residing in the sampled townships.
 
Subject Term(s):census data, counties, crop production, crop value, farm families, farms, historical periods, household income, households, instructional materials, land owners, occupations, property values, real estate, rural areas, rural population
 
Geographic Coverage:United States, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont
 
Time Period:1860
 
Date(s) of Collection:1989 - 2002
 
Universe:956 counties in 20 northern states.
 
Data Type:census enumeration data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) This collection is part of the ICPSR initiative, Site for Instructional Materials and Information (SIMI) (link), which promotes the use of social science data in undergraduate and graduate education through the sharing of faculty-submitted ICPSR data-based instructional materials developed for use in the classroom. (2) These materials were designed for use with AGRICULTURAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC RECORDS FOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN THE NORTH, 1860 (ICPSR 7420) (link). (3) The data are provided as an SPSS portable file, which was created from the ASCII data and SPSS data definition statements files available from ICPSR 7420. (4) The codebook and handout are provided by ICPSR as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
 

Methodology

Sample:The data (AGRICULTURAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC RECORDS FOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN THE NORTH, 1860 [ICPSR 7420]) were collected using a two-stage variable-cluster sample design. A random sample of 102 counties in 16 northern states was drawn. From each of these counties one non-urban township was randomly selected. Census records from all households in the selected townships were included in the study.
 
Data Source:manuscript schedules of the 1860 United States Census
 
Extent of Processing:REFORM.DOC
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Restrictions:At the request of the principal investigator, publications that draw upon the data, AGRICULTURAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC RECORDS FOR RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN THE NORTH, 1860 (ICPSR 7420), must observe the copyright held by Professors Bateman and Foust.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2002-10-17
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Agricultural and Demographic Records for Rural Households in the North, 1860: [Instructional Materials]
 

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