Linking the 1940 U.S. Census with modern data

Massey, Catherine; Genadek, Katie R.; Alexander, J. Trent; Gardner, Todd; O’Hara, Amy

doi:10.1080/01615440.2018.1507772

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“…For a variety of reasons, some census respondents do not receive a PIK (as is detailed in our discussion of the limitations of our findings in the following text). For more information on the linkage procedures, see Massey et al (2018).…”

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The Great Migration and Residential Segregation in American Cities during the Twentieth Century

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The Great Migration from the South and the rise of racial residential segregation strongly shaped the twentieth-century experience of African Americans. Yet, little attention has been devoted to how the two phenomena were linked, especially with respect to the individual experiences of the migrants. We address this gap by using novel data that links individual records from the complete-count 1940 Census to those in the 2000 Census long form, in conjunction with information about the level of racial residential segregation in metropolitan areas in 1940 and 2000. We first consider whether migrants from the South and their children experienced higher or lower levels of segregation in 1940 relative to their counterparts who were born in the North or who remained in the South. Next, we extend our analysis to second-generation Great Migration migrants and their segregation outcomes by observing their location in 2000. Additionally, we assess whether second-generation migrants experience larger decreases in their exposure to segregation as their socioeconomic status increases relative to their southern and/or northern stayer counterparts. Our study significantly advances our understanding of the Great Migration and the “segregated century.”

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“…For this reason, all linkages over time are probabilistic and rely on variables such as name, age, and state or country of birth. These challenges have contributed to relatively low rates of coverage and high rates of error and bias in linked census data from 1850–1940, especially when compared to linkages across more recent surveys and administrative data [ 21 , 22 , 24 ].…”

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“…By using administrative records that are proximate to census data in time, we reduce the risk of variables changing over time, and we maximize the use of the particular linkage variables available during each census year. This protocol for the linkage of records on the DCDL project builds on methods used to assign anonymous linkage keys to the most recent decennial census data [20], as well as lessons learned from research focused on the linkage of historical census records from 1850-1940 [21][22][23].…”

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Using administrative records to support the linkage of census data: protocol for building a longitudinal infrastructure of U.S. census records

Alexander

Genadek

2023

IJPDS

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This article describes the linkage methods that will be used in the Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage project (DCDL), which is completing the final four decades of a longitudinal census infrastructure covering the past 170 years of United States history. DCDL is digitizing and creating linkages between nearly a billion records across the 1960 through 1990 U.S. censuses, as well as to already-linked records from the censuses of 1940, 2000, 2010, and 2020. Our main goals in this article are to (1) describe the development of the DCDL and the protocol we will follow to build the linkages between the census files, (2) outline the techniques we will use to evaluate the quality of the links, and (3) show how the assignment and evaluation of these linkages leverages the joint use of routinely collected administrative data and non-routine survey data.

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“…(Wolf, Joye, Smith, & Fu, 2016). Although researchers have less control over the structure, quality, accuracy, and completeness of statistical, observational, and administrative data, they can use a combination of documentation, statistical techniques, and prior experience with canonical data sets (e.g., census data, economic indicators, and species registries) to detect errors or estimate reliability of data sets (Alvarez, 2016;Massey, Genadek, Alexander, Gardner, & O'Hara, 2018;Randall & Coast, 2016).…”

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Saving social media data: Understanding data management practices among social media researchers and their implications for archives

Hemphill

Hedstrom

Leonard

2020

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Social media data (SMD) offer researchers new opportunities to leverage those data for their work in broad areas such as public opinion, digital culture, labor trends, and public health. The success of efforts to save SMD for reuse by researchers will depend on aligning data management and archiving practices with evolving norms around the capture, use, sharing, and security of datasets. This paper presents an initial foray into understanding how established practices for managing and preserving data should adapt to demands from researchers who use and reuse SMD, and from people who are subjects in SMD. We examine the data management practices of researchers who use SMD through a survey, and we analyze published articles that used data from Twitter. We discuss how researchers describe their data management practices and how these practices may differ from the management of conventional data types. We explore conceptual, technical, and ethical challenges for data archives based on the similarities and differences between SMD and other types of research data, focusing on the social sciences. Finally, we suggest areas where archives may need to revise policies, practices, and services in order to create secure, persistent, and usable collections of SMD.

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Linking the 1940 U.S. Census with modern data

Cited by 19 publications

References 19 publications

The Great Migration and Residential Segregation in American Cities during the Twentieth Century

The Great Migration and Residential Segregation in American Cities during the Twentieth Century

Using administrative records to support the linkage of census data: protocol for building a longitudinal infrastructure of U.S. census records

Saving social media data: Understanding data management practices among social media researchers and their implications for archives

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