Creating Linked Historical Data: An Assessment of the Census Bureau’s Ability to Assign Protected Identification Keys to the 1960 Census

Catherine G. Massey

CARRA Working Papers from Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau

Abstract: In order to study social phenomena over the course of the 20th century, the Census Bureau is investigating the feasibility of digitizing historical census records and linking them to contemporary data. However, historical censuses have limited personally identifiable information available to match on. In this paper, I discuss the problems associated with matching older censuses to contemporary data files, and I describe the matching process used to match a small sample of the 1960 census to the Social Security Administration Numeric Identification System.

Keywords: census data; contemporary data; PIK (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09
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