Summary
SUMMARY This project will digitize and disseminate the only remaining non-digitized U.S. census records between 1790 and the present: the 1960 full-count Census. We will then use the resulting microdata to complete the largest longitudinal data infrastructure in the U.S. The linked infrastructure currently includes data from the censuses of 1940 and 2000-2020 and will soon include data from the full-count censuses of 1950, 1970, 1980, and 1990, and the 25% sample from 1960. The current project will incorporate the full-count 1960 Census. These new data will provide a new mid-life observation f