Estimation of the Industrial Distribution of the U.S. Labor Force

这项研究的目的是对19世纪美国劳动力的行业分布做出比目前可用的更可靠和详细的估计。该项目将按年龄类别和城乡位置估计从事非农部门主要行业的男女工人人数。这将在该世纪每个十年一次的人口普查基准日期为每个州进行。地区和全国的总数将作为州数字的总和得出。一些重要的事实是，这些数字将与这一时期农业和非农劳动力总数的最新估计一致。这项工作将广泛使用联邦人口普查数据，特别是在本世纪初，补充了来自州人口普查、城市名录的证据，以及其他人对特定行业或地区的研究。从1850年到1900年的更详细的人口普查将为详细的细分提供基础。这些细节将被用来分解1820年和1840年人口普查中可用的证据。反过来，这组更完整的数据将被用来估计1800年、1810年和1830年的数字。这些详细的数字将使人们能够更仔细地分析一些问题，这些问题对于全面了解美国经济的增长和演变至关重要。其中包括对1800年至1840年期间国家产出的估计，对地区产出细分的估计，对国家和地区经济增长来源的分析，以及对服务经济崛起的分析。

The purpose of this research is to produce more reliable and detailed estimates of the industrial distribution of the U.S. labor force for the nineteenth century than is currently available. The project will estimate the number of male and female workers, by age category, and by urban and rural location, engaged in the major industries within the nonfarm sector. This will be done for each state at each decennial census benchmark date in that century. Regional and national totals will be derived as the sum of the state figures. Of some importance is the fact that these figures will be consistent with the most recent estimates of the total, farm, and nonfarm labor forces for this period. The work will make extensive use of the Federal census data, supplemented, especially in the earlier years of the century, by evidence from state censuses, city directories, and the research of others on specific industries or locales. The more detailed censuses for 1850 through 1900 will provide the foundation of the detailed breakdown. Those details will be used to disaggregate the evidence available in the 1820 and 1840 censuses. In turn, that fuller set of data will be used to estimate the figures for 1800, 1810 and 1830. These detailed figures will permit more careful analysis of a number of issues important to a full understanding of the growth and evolution of the U.S. economy. These include estimation of the nation's output in the years 1800 through 1840, estimation of the regional breakdown of output, analysis of the nation's and the regions'sources of economic growth, and analysis of the rise of the service economy.