The use of the census to estimate childhood mortality: Comparisons from the 1900 and 1910 united states census public use samples

Historical Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 77-96

  Haines, Michael R ^a   Preston, Samuel H ^b  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; CHILD MORTALITY; HISTORICAL METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY RATES; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

USA;

EID: 0031473923     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01615449709601177     Document Type: Article

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