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Title: The story of families, wrested from big data
Citation Type: Miscellaneous
Publication Year: 2021
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DOI: 10.1146/KNOWABLE-071421-1
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Abstract: They may lack the sweep of a novel, the pathos of a play or the beauty of a poem, but the facts and figures collected through the census tell us a great deal about ourselves, and about the generations who came before us. Just ask Steven Ruggles, a historical demographer at the University of Minnesota who has built a career deciphering census data to trace the history of the family in the Western world. By mining public records, Ruggles can learn how family structures have changed over time: who and when people marry, when they have children, where and how people live, the ways people make a living.
Url: https://doi.org/10.1146/KNOWABLE-071421-1
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Authors: Brown, Eryn
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Family and Marriage, Other, Population Data Science, Work, Family, and Time
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