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