Principal Investigator(s): Vinyard, Jo Ellen
This data collection provides information for native-born Americans, Irish Americans, and German Americans living in Detroit, Michigan, between 1850 and 1880. Demographic variables provide information on age, sex, occupation, marital status, marriage patterns, ethnic background, place of birth, and spouse's and parents' place of birth. Additional information is provided on family size, number of children of adults, number of individuals in the house beyond the immediate family, total number of individuals in the nuclear family, position of individuals within the family, number of children eligible to be in school, activities of school-age children, adult male skill level, literacy level, length of time the family had been in the United States, ownership and value of real estate, constitutional and legal status, and physical condition.
Vinyard, Jo Ellen. DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POPULATION OF DETROIT, 1850-1880. ICPSR00031-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1991. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00031.v1
Persistent URL: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00031.v1
Scope of Study
Subject Terms: census data, demographic characteristics, ethnicity, family, family size, foreign born, German Americans, household composition, Irish Americans, nationality, native born, nineteenth century, occupations, personal wealth, place of birth, population, school age children, urban areas
Universe: Individuals residing in Detroit, Michigan, between 1850 and 1880.
Data Types: census data
Sample: Irish Americans, German Americans, and Native-born Americans residing in Detroit, Michigan
United States Censuses of 1850 and 1880
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Original ICPSR Release: 1984-05-10
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