The CenSoc project has three principal aims:

1. Creation and Dissemination of Linked Mortality Data Sets, that is, public, individual-level data sets linking the 1940 U.S. Census with the (a) Social Security Death Master File, an (b) the NARA Numident file. See the data page for more information.
2. Development of New Mortality Rate Estimation Methods for Linked Data
3. Production of “High Resolution” Studies of Mortality Disparities and Longevity Determinants. See the research page.

We gratefully acknowledge funding from the National Institute of Aging (R01AG058940), Berkeley’s Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging (5P30AG012839), and the National Institute for Child Health and Human Behavior, Berkeley Population Center (P2CHD073964). We thank IPUMS for technical support and for its Complete Count Census repository program. We also thank the National Archives for facilitating access to the Numident files.