Collaborative Research to Extend the 1860 Bateman-Foust Agricultural and Demographic Sample

这个合作项目的目的是通过从1880年人口和农业普查的手稿中收集相同乡镇的数据来扩展Batemen-Foust 1860数据集。然后，这两个数据集将在两个人口普查日期之间的家庭之间进行连接，以提供19世纪下半叶家庭、家庭、个人、农场和社区的大规模横截面/时间序列数据库。由此产生的综合数据库有望在其历史的关键时期对美国经济的发展提供重要的新见解，并为经济历史学家、人口统计学家、农村社会学家和其他学科的学者提供长期的研究材料。这也是当代研究的潜在兴趣和相关性，因为19世纪后期见证了美国从农村农业国家到城市工业国家的结构变化，这种变化类似于正在进行的从制造业到服务业的转变。

The purpose of this collaborative project is to extend the Batemen-Foust 1860 data set by collecting data for the same townships from the manuscripts of the 1880 Census of Population and Agriculture. These two data sets will then be linked across households between the two census dates to provide a large scale cross-section/time-series database on families, households, individuals, farms, and communities in the second half of the nineteenth century. The resulting composite database promises important new insights into the development of the American economy at a critical period in its history and offers long term research material for economic historians, demographers, rural sociologists and scholars from other disciplines. It is also of potential interest and relevance for contemporary research since the late nineteenth century witnessed the structural change of America from a rural, agricultural country to an urban-industrial one, a change analogous to the on-going shift from manufacturing to services.