Parenthood in Early Twentieth-Century America

Parenthood in Early Twentieth-Century America Project (PETCAP), 1900-1944,  comprises transcriptions of original handwritten and published materials relating to infant and child care dating from the turn of the century into World War II. There are three types of data in the collection: (1) popular magazine articles, (2) letters to educator and author Angelo Patri (1876-1965) and his replies, and (3) letters to the United States Children’s Bureau, along with the Bureau’s replies.

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American Housing Survey Microdata

American Housing Survey 2007 National Microdata is provided by the Bureau of the Census.  This survey contains extensive data on housing and demographic variables for over 46,000 households.

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Medicare Health Outcomes

The Medicare Health Outcomes Survey, 1998-2007 is the first patient reported outcomes measure used in Medicare managed care. It is a continuous study that measures the physical and mental health of Medicare beneficiaries over a two-year period.

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Hurricane Katrina Study

The Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group Study is a project to monitor the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Follow-up interviews conducted with the Advisory Group members to monitor the pace of recovery, as well as reports prepared for policy-makers, press releases, and digitally recorded oral histories are being posted on the Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group Web site as they become available. Demographic variables include gender, age, race, ethnicity, pre-hurricane residence (place), pre-hurricane type of housing (detached home, mobile home, apartment, etc.), pre-hurricane employment, family income, marital status, education, home ownership (owned with mortgage, owned without mortgage, rented, etc.), where the respondent lived at time of interview, religious preference, and religiosity.

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Evaluation of The Urban Health Initiative: Working to Ensure the Health and Safety of Children

The National Evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Urban Health Initiative (UHI): Survey of Adults and Youth (SAY), Waves 1-3,1998-2005 is a survey that asked of both parents and their 10-18 year old children, regarding children’s health, safety, perceptions of neighborhoods and schools, family relations, quality of city services, and other issues.

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Confederate Amnesty Records for the United States Civil War, 1863-1866

Confederate Amnesty Records for the United States Civil War, 1863-1866 is based on oaths of surrendering soldiers.

“This data collection was designed to compare the heights of southern whites with those of slaves and northern white males between 1863 and 1866. Information provided includes month, day, and year of amnesty, county and state, age, color of skin, eyes, and hair, occupation, last name, first name, oath administrators, feet component in height, inch component in height, and height in inches.”

Comparable historical studies include:

Union Army Recruits in Black Regiments in the United States, 1862-1865

Union Army Recruits in White Regiments in the United States, 1861-1865

Union Army Rejected Recruits in the United States, 1861-1865

Slave Hires, 1775-1865

Slave Sales and Appraisals, 1775-1865

New Orleans Slave Sale Sample, 1804-1862

and several more studies by Robert Fogel and others.

Weekly US Automobile Production: 1972-1983 and 1990-2001

Weekly Production Scheduling at Assembly Plants in the United States Automobile Industry: 1972-1983 and 1990-2001 reports production of car manufacturers by Chrysler, Ford, and GM.

“The data consist of information on weekly operations at United States and Canadian automobile assembly plants owned by the Detroit Three automakers (Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors). The dataset was constructed from industry trade publications that report production schedules at these assembly plants on a weekly basis over the two time periods: 1972-1983, and 1990-2001. The period 1984 to 1989 was excluded only because the authors did not have access to key publications at the time the data were collected.”

Longitudinal Study of Generations (California, 1971-2000)

From the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging, the Longitudinal Study of Generations tracks 300 3-generation California families at intervals (1971, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000) over a variety of social, demographic, and health factors.

National Couples Survey, 2005-2006

The National Couples Survey, 2005-2006, is now available.  This survey obtained separate, parallel reports from both partners, providing unique and detailed data on the power relations, birth desires, method-related expectancies, values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors of men and women making contraceptive and disease prevention choices within the context of an intimate heterosexual relationship.

Multi-User Database on the Attributes of United States District Court Judges, 1801-2000

The ICPSR’s National Archive of Criminal Justice Data has added a new file on

Multi-User Database on the Attributes of United States District Court Judges, 1801-2000.

This project was undertaken to compile a definitive database on the personal, social, economic, career, and political attributes of judges who served on the United States District Courts from 1801 to 2000. The database includes conventional social background variables such as the name of the appointing president, the judge’s religion, political party affiliation, education, and prior experience. In addition, unique items are provided: the temporal sequence of prior career experiences, the timing of and reason for leaving the bench, gender, race and ethnicity, position numbering analogous to the scheme used for the Supreme Court, American Bar Association rating, and net worth (for judges who began service on the bench after 1978). The second objective of this project was to merge these data with a multi-user database on United States District Court decisions.