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Mortality Census Data: 1850 to 1880

IPUMS provides full count datasets of the U.S. Censuses of Mortality for 1850 to 1880. The underlying data were provided by Ancestry.com. IPUMS supplied supplemental data collection and processed and encoded the data for research.

Data description. An overview of how the data were collected and processed.

Variables. Variable descriptions, codes, and availability.

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Citation

J. David Hacker, Ronald Goeken, Susan H. Leonard, Matt A. Nelson, Evan Roberts, and Matthew Sobek. IPUMS Full Count Datasets of the United States Censuses of Mortality, 1850-1880 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2024.

Funding

Development of these data was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant R01HD082120.

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For questions about the IPUMS mortality census data, contact ipums@umn.edu.