Research Catalog

Title

Aging of veterans of the Union Army [electronic resource] : United States federal census records, 1850, 1860, 1900, 1910.

Publication

Ann Arbor, MI : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Fogel, Robert William.
• Brigham Young University. Department of Economics.
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
• University of Chicago. Center for Population Economics.

Summary

This data collection constitutes a portion of the historical data collected by the project "Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death." With the goal of constructing datasets suitable for longitudinal analyses of factors affecting the aging process, the project is collecting military, medical, and socioeconomical data on a sample of white males mustered into the Union Army during the Civil War. The project seeks to examine the influence of environmental and host factors prior to recruitment on the health performance and survival of recruits during military service, to identify and show relationships between socioeconomic and biomedical conditions (including nutritional status) of veterans at early ages and mortality rates from diseases at middle and late ages, and to study the effects of health and pensions on labor force participation rates of veterans at ages 65 and over. This installment of the collection, Version C-3, supersedes all previous collections (Versions C-1 and C-2), and contains data from the censuses of 1850, 1860, 1900, and 1910 on veterans who were originally mustered into the Union Army in Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and West Virginia. This version of the collection also contains observations from Wisconsin, Indiana, California, and New Mexico. Census Data, Part 1, includes place of residence, relationship to head of household, date and place of birth, number of children, education, disability status, employment status, number of years in the United States, literacy, marital status, occupation, parents' birthplace, and property/home ownership. The variables in Part 2, Linkage Data, indicate which document sources were located for each recruit.

Series Statement

• Civil War veterans series
• ICPSR ; 6836

Uniform Title

ICPSR (Series) ; 6836.

Alternative Title

Public use tape on the aging of the veterans of the Union Army

Subject

• United States. Army > Statistics > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Databases
• Longevity > Databases
• Aging > Databases
• Aging
• American Civil War
• Causes of death
• Census data
• Demographic characteristics
• Disease
• Health status
• Labor force
• Medical records
• Midlife
• Military pensions
• Military recruitment
• Military service
• Mortality rates
• Nineteenth century
• Nutrition
• Socioeconomic status
• Twentieth century
• Union Army
• Veterans
• United States > Statistics > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Databases

Genre/Form

• Statistics.
• Databases.

Note

• Codebook available in print and electronic format.
• Title from title screen (viewed on May 19, 2006).

Access (note)

• Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

File Type (note)

• Extent of collection: 2 data files + machine-readable documentation (PDF) + SAS setup files + SPSS setup files + Stata setup files.

Event (note)

• Date(s) of collection: 1987-1989; 1992-1998.
• Time period: 1850; 1860; 1900; 1910.

Coverage (note)

• Geographic coverage: California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York (state), Ohio, Pennsylvania, United States, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin.

Cite As (note)

• Fogel, Robert W., et al. AGING OF VETERANS OF THE UNION ARMY: UNITED STATES FEDERAL CENSUS RECORDS, 1850, 1860, 1900, 1910 [Computer file]. ICPSR06836-v6. Chicago, IL: Robert W. Fogel et al., University of Chicago, Center for Population Economics [producers], 2000. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-06-13.

Funding (note)

• Funding agency: National Institutes of Health; National Science Foundation.
• Grant number: NIH PO1 AG10120; NSF SBR 9114981.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Data format: Logical Record Length with SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files, SAS transport (CPORT) file, SPSS portable file, and Stata system file.
• Extent of processing: CONCHK.PR/ UNDOCCHK.PR/ MDATA.PR/ REFORM.DOC/ DDEF.ICPSR/ REFORM.DATA.

OCLC

• ocn177491804
• SCSB-1144535

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library