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Title: A nineteenth-century resource for agricultural history research in the twenty-first century

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: The paper announces the imminent availability of a major extension of the well-known Bateman-Foust sample. This new resource will contain linked agricultural and population census data between 1850 and 1880 for thousands of individuals in an expanded group of townships including some from the Pacific Coast states and Massachusetts and has in excess of 220, 000 person-observations. The paper discusses a number of problems and complications associated with the creation of this retrospective panel database. It also shows how these data may be linked to other computer-searchable databases and resources (such as land records) and discusses the impact of personal and family characteristics on persistence and the likelihood of record linkage within the sample townships using a panel from a completed subsection of the project.

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Authors: Atack, Jeremy

Periodical (Full): Agricultural History

Issue: 4

Volume: 78

Pages: 389-412

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