Abstract
For those interested in historical evidence the Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) drawn from the U.S. decennial censuses present attractive resources and among their most appealing aspects is the opportunity they offer for comparative analyses across time. In this article we focus on just this appeal: comparative use of the 1940 and 1950 PUMS....We review critically the original censuses and the samples taken from them in an effort to provide a `users guide for researchers. We identify some of the more salient features of the original 1940 and 1950 censuses describe how sampling teams drew the PUMS data sets from them and then discuss the consequences of both the original and subsequent sampling designs. (EXCERPT)
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