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Finding & Analyzing Historical Data

This guide has been developed for the 2/8/23 workshop by Charlotte Kiger Price

Workshop & Guide

This workshop and research guide were both based upon:

"The Most Vital Statistics: Finding and Analyzing Historical Mortality Rates" by Alisa Beth Rod, PhD, Research Data Management Specialist, McGill University Library, alisa.rod@mcgill.ca and Jennie Correia, Personal Librarian for the Social Sciences and Associate Director of Teaching, Learning, and Research Services, Barnard College, jcorreia@barnard.edu

Dataset

This dataset, cleaned and truncated by Alisa Beth Rod and Jennie Correia, was based upon:

Haines, Michael R. Mortality in Five American Cities in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1800-1930. ICPSR, 2018-11-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37155.v1

 

Note: Curation and dissemination of the original study is provided by the institutional members of ICPSR, and data is available only to users at ICPSR member institutions (CMU is a member).