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Comparison of Information on Death Certificates and Matching 1960 Census Records: Age, Marital Status, Race, Nativity and Country of Origin

Thea Zelman Hambright
Demography (1969) 6 (4): 413–423.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060086
Published: 01 November 1969
...Thea Zelman Hambright Abstract A sample of death certificates matched with 1960 Census records permitted comparison of response data for items asked on both records. Estimates of bias in death rates which are based on information from the two records are derived from the comparison data. Most...
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U.S. Fertility in Life Course Context: A Research Note on Using Census-Held Linked Administrative Records for Geographic and Sociodemographic Subgroup Estimation

Leslie Root, Amanda Jean Stevenson, Katie Genadek, Sara Yeatman, Stefanie Mollborn ...
Demography (2024) 61 (2): 251–266.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11234861
Published: 01 April 2024
... personally identifiable information and can be used to link records across Census Bureau data sources ( Wagner and Layne 2014 ). The 2000 and 2010 censuses are our primary sources for information on race and ethnicity. They are the preferred source for residential location information in 2000 and 2010...
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Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article

Mortality among elderly hispanics in the United States: Past evidence and new results

Irma T. Elo, Cassio M. Turra, Bert Kestenbaum, B. Reneé Ferguson
Demography (2004) 41 (1): 109–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2004.0001
Published: 01 February 2004
...Irma T. Elo; Cassio M. Turra; Bert Kestenbaum; B. Reneé Ferguson Abstract We used vital records and census data and Medicare and NUMIDENT records to estimate age-and sex-specific death rates for elderly non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics, including five Hispanic subgroups: persons born in Cuba...
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Accuracy of death certificate ages for the extreme aged

Ira Rosenwaike, Barbara Logue
Demography (1983) 20 (4): 569–585.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061120
Published: 01 November 1983
... of nonwhites were linked to the 1900 U.S. Census. A comparison of age on the death certificate with the age reported for the same individual in the census record showed a high level of agreement for whites, except at ages 100 and over; for nonwhites, however, age agreement levels were substantially lower...
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A reconsideration of negro-white mortality differentials in the United States

Paul Demeny, Paul Gingrich
Demography (1967) 4 (2): 820–837.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060320
Published: 01 June 1967
... rates implicit in the census records for native whites and for Negroes. The results are in general agreement with the official figures, particularly for males. Second, mortality levels and differentials in early childhood are estimated by extrapolating the official 1)5 values via model life tables...
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Forensic demography and civil rights

Arlyne I. Pozner
Demography (1967) 4 (1): 351–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060374
Published: 01 March 1967
... DEMOGRAPHY NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in Jackson, Mississippi, from forms showing char- acteristics of persons actually affected by the law. But this limited sample did not provide evidence solid enough upon which to build a case. It was decided to rely on a retabulation of 1960 Census records...
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Education differentials in mortality by cause of death: United States, 1960

Evelyn M. Kitagawa, Philip M. Hauser
Demography (1968) 5 (1): 318–353.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03208579
Published: 01 March 1968
... of death was made possible by matching some 340,000 death certificates, of a total of 535,000 deaths which occurred in the United States during the months May-August, 1960, to the 1960 Census records. Since only about 80 percent of the deaths could be matched to census schedules, provision was made...
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The Migration of Lynch Victims' Families, 1880–1930

Ryan Gabriel, Adrian Haws, Amy Kate Bailey, Joseph Price
Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1235–1256.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10881293
Published: 01 August 2023
...Ryan Gabriel; Adrian Haws; Amy Kate Bailey; Joseph Price Abstract We examine the relationship between the lynching of African Americans in the southern United States and subsequent county out-migration of the victims' surviving family members. Using U.S. census records and machine learning methods...
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Mortality rates of elderly Asian American populations based on medicare and social security data

Diane S. Lauderdale, Bert Kestenbaum
Demography (2002) 39 (3): 529–540.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0028
Published: 01 August 2002
... by combining race, place of birth, surname, and given name. The data source and ethnic determination are the same for deaths and the population at risk, avoiding the problem of noncomparability present when data for the numerator come from vital records and data for the denominator come from census records. We...
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Urbanization and de-urbanization of the black population before the civil war

Jane Riblett Wilkie
Demography (1976) 13 (3): 311–328.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060530
Published: 01 August 1976
...Jane Riblett Wilkie Abstract Pre-Civil War black urbanization is examined using data from federal census records, 1790 to 1860. The black population is found to be as urban as the white population initially, but its urbanization underwent relative decline in the last two decades before the Civil...
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America’s Churning Races: Race and Ethnicity Response Changes Between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census

Carolyn A. Liebler, Sonya R. Porter, Leticia E. Fernandez, James M. Noon, Sharon R. Ennis
Demography (2017) 54 (1): 259–284.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0544-0
Published: 19 January 2017
... used internal linked U.S. Census Bureau data from the 2000 and 2010 censuses, linked by the Census Bureau’s Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (CARRA). CARRA used probability record linkage techniques and name, sex, date of birth, and address to assign each person (as possible...
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Includes: Supplementary data
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A new evaluation of United States census data on the extreme aged

Ira Rosenwaike
Demography (1979) 16 (2): 279–288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061143
Published: 01 May 1979
..., the data for whites show remarkable correspondence; the tally for nonwhites developed from death records falls considerably short of the census count, indicating a greater overstatement of age in the latter source. 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1979 1979 Census Data Death...
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The Longevity Benefits of Homeownership: Evidence From Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Male Birth Cohorts

Casey F. Breen
Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1731–1757.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11680975
Published: 01 December 2024
.... To link the set of siblings to their mortality records, I use the publicly available CenSoc-DMF (V2.1) dataset ( Goldstein et al. 2021 ). This file links men in the 1940 census to Social Security mortality records in the DMF again using the ABE record linkage algorithm ( Abramitzky et al. 2020 ). The DMF...
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Line chart comparing homeownership rates by age group and race from 1900 to 1940. Successively older age groups had higher ownership rates, and White individuals consistently had higher rates than Black individuals in all age groups.

Black–White differences in homeownership rates by age category between 1900...

in The Longevity Benefits of Homeownership: Evidence From Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Male Birth Cohorts > Demography
Published: 01 December 2024
Fig. 2 Black–White differences in homeownership rates by age category between 1900 and 1940. Calculations are based on complete-count decennial census records ( Ruggles et al. 2020 ). More
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Line chart showing homeownership rates of Black and White individuals from 1870 to 1940. Black homeownership rose steadily from 1870 to 1900 before leveling off, whereas White homeownership declined or held steady over time; the gap between rates was about 25% from 1900 to 1940.

Black–White differences in homeownership rates among male household heads b...

in The Longevity Benefits of Homeownership: Evidence From Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Male Birth Cohorts > Demography
Published: 01 December 2024
Fig. 1 Black–White differences in homeownership rates among male household heads between 1870 and 1940. To calculate homeownership rates in 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940, I used complete-count census records ( Ruggles et al. 2020 ). For earlier census decades, I used estimates More
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Government statistics: The conflict between research and privacy

Harvey M. Choldin
Demography (1988) 25 (1): 145–154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061484
Published: 01 February 1988
.... Censuses make easy targets because unlike any other sort of personal record system, they are widely publicized and affect every person simultaneously. Anti-census campaigns capture the attention of the press. Statistical agencies are not equipped to defend themselves effectively. At worst, the campaigns...
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The Effects of Education on Mortality: Evidence From Linked U.S. Census and Administrative Mortality Data

Andrew Halpern-Manners, Jonas Helgertz, John Robert Warren, Evan Roberts
Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1513–1541.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00892-6
Published: 21 July 2020
... 1920 and 1940 censuses are publicly available at https://www.ipums.org . The linked data files used in this project are available upon request. Halpern-Manners, Warren, Roberts, and Helgertz conceived of the project; Helgertz designed and implemented the record-linking procedure; and Halpern...
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Age reporting among white Americans aged 85+: Results of a record linkage study

Mark E. Hill, Samuel H. Preston, Ira Rosenwaike
Demography (2000) 37 (2): 175–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648119
Published: 01 May 2000
... censuses (when most subjects were children). The introduction of the early census record was designed as a proxy for the birth cer- tificate to compensate for deficiencies in the quality of the SSA data. The authors produced a corrected age distribu- tion of deaths, based on the consistency of age...
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Verification of the ages of supercentenarians in the United States: Results of a matching study

Ira Rosenwaike, Leslie F. Stone
Demography (2003) 40 (4): 727–739.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0038
Published: 01 November 2003
... by comparing the ages reported at death with the ages recorded in U.S. censuses collected when the decedents were children or young adults. This type of linkage first became possible on a large scale in 1973, when microfilm copies of the Soundex indexes to the 1900 census manuscripts for all households became...
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Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration

Peter Catron, María Vignau Loría, Sarah Farr
Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1377–1402.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11547756
Published: 01 October 2024
... and their later economic attainment. Specifically, we create a new dataset of border-crossing records of Mexican individuals who arrived in the United States in 1910–1940 that we then link to their 1940 census records. U.S. border-crossing records provide a wealth of information not included in U.S. censuses...
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