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Title: The 1910 Black and Hispanic Oversamples
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 1999
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Abstract: When the 1910 PUMS was originally conceived and released it was remarkable for its size and comprehensiveness, and for the technology used to construct it. With a sample density of approximately 1-in-250, it was more than three times as large as the earlier 1900 PUMS, in relative terms. For the first time, not only was there a nationally representative sample, but it was also possible to study significant subgroups of the population, as Watkins (1994) showed. Populous geographical areas were well represented, with 15,599 cases for Texas, 36,027 for New York State, and large numbers for major cities, including 19,081 cases for New York City, 6,081 for Philadelphia, and 8,584 for Chicago.Despite the impressive overall size of the sample and the ability to use it to study carefully selected subgroups within the population, there is research for which it was not designed. It is not possible, for example, to analyze the characteristics of small populations within the United States in 1910, if it is also necessary to subdivide them into a significant number of additional subgroups. This turned out to be an important research consideration when studying Americans of African and Hispanic origin in 1910, which led two research groups to design and construct oversamples of the 1910 PUMS, which could be used for the detailed study of those groups. This article describes those samples in general terms. Fuller discussion can be found in the IPUMS documentation (Gutmann et al. 1998), as well as in Gutmann, Frisbie and Blanchard (1999) and in Morgan and Ewbank (1990).
Url: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01615449909598937
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Authors: Gutmann, Myron P.; Ewbank, Douglas
Periodical (Full): Historical Methods
Issue: 3
Volume: 32
Pages: 156-158
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Race and Ethnicity
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