Census of population, 1860 [United States]
Subtitle: urban household sample
By: principal investigator, Jon Moen
Series: ICPSR -- 8930; ICPSR (Series) -- 8930
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Households; Statistics; Population; Census, 1860
Description: The Urban Household Sample of the 1860 United States Census was designed to supplement the Bateman-Foust rural sample with observations from urban areas. The sample covers both northern and southern towns and cities and permits examination of female occupations and labor force participation rates. Information on individuals includes occupation, city of residence, age, sex, race, dollar value of real and personal property owned, whether American or foreign born, and literacy.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1860. Data collected: 1986.

United States Bureau of the Census 1860 Manuscript Schedules.

Census/enumeration data.

United States.

University of Chicago, Center for Population Economics.

LRECL data format.

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 10,001 ; variable count: 13 ; LRECL: 59 ; records per case: 1.

Stratified random sample.

Universe: All individuals living in towns with populations of 3,000 or more who were enumerated in the 1860 Census of Population Manuscript Schedules.