Mortality in Five American Cities in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1800-1930

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Label

Mortality in Five American Cities in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1800-1930

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Haines, Michael R

Author

• Haines, Michael R

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• demographic characteristics
• infant mortality
• mortality rates
• aggregate
• slave populations
• population characteristics
• birth rates
• census
• census data

Genre

• census
• aggregate

Summary

This collection contains five modified data sets with mortality, population, and other demographic information for five American cities (Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; New Orleans, Louisiana; New York City (Manhattan only), New York; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) from the early 19th century to the early 20th century. Mortality was represented by an annual crude death rate (deaths per 1000 population per year). The population was linearly interpolated from U.S. Census data and state census data (for Boston and New York City). All data sets include variables for year, total deaths, census populations, estimated annual linearly interpolated populations, and crude death rate. The Baltimore data set (DS0001) also provides birth and death rate variables based on race and slave status demographics, as well as a variable for stillbirths. The Philadelphia data set (DS0005) also includes variables for total births, total infant deaths, crude birth rate, and infant deaths per 1,000 live births