Ward-Level Socioeconomic Variables from 1860-1900

The following tables present a pilot work of collecting ward-level socioeconomic variables from 1860–1900 that will be used for Project 3, The Impact of Urban Disparities on Aging and Mortality.

Data were collected for five pilot cities including New York City, Boston, Baltimore, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. The source of data is the 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900 IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) samples.

The available variables include enumeration periods, distributions of age, race, nativity, literacy, schooling, and occupation, income score, wealth, wealth by age and race group, population density, marital status, home ownership, immigration, infant mortality rate, children ever born and surviving

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