Monday, September 10, 2007

Historical Census Browser

Now available in Historia (American History-general sources):

The Historical Census Browser

Maintained online by the University of Virginia Library this excellent source will allow you to:

Examine state and county topics for individual census years 1790-1960.
  • examine multiple topics within a census year
  • produce tables of data by state or county
  • sort data by selected categories
  • create ratios between any two data categories
Examine state and county topics over time.
  • examine a topic across multiple census years
  • produce tables of data by state or county
  • review: general population, education and literacy, the economy, manufacturing and employment, demographics of race and birth, agricultural information, and investigate the slave population
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

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