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LINKPOP

Basis of link to population schedule

Description

LINKPOP indicates how the link (HISTID) was made to the slaveholder in the population data.

The variable is only available in 1850.

Availability

1850

Codes

Code	Label
0	Unlinked
1	Machine-generated link
2	Hand-linked
3	Machine-linked (proximate/name similarity)
4	Machine-linked (name similarity)