Frozen film and FOSDIC forms: Restoring the 1960 U.S. Census of population and housing

Historical Methods

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 69-78

  Ruggles, Steven ^a   Schroeder, Matthew ^a   Rivers, Natasha ^a   Alexander, J Trent ^b   Gardner, Todd K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

Author keywords

census; data recovery; demography; IPUMS; microdata; Minnesota Population Center; public use sample

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; FILM; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958764158     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2011.561778     Document Type: Article

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