The CenSoc team is happy to announce the release of Berkeley Unified Numident Mortality Database (BUNMD) and CenSoc-Numident supplemental geography files. These files contain additional geographic information for place of birth and/or place of death for the majority of decedents in the BUNMD and the CenSoc-Numident file. These supplemental variables can be attached to the […]
The CenSoc team is pleased to announce the release of the CenSoc-Numident and CenSoc-DMF version 3.0 datasets, which link the 1940 Census to Social Security mortality records. This version of the data contains new person weights calculated using NCHS data. New Statistical Weights In version 3.0 CenSoc-Numident and CenSoc-DMF data, we construct inverse inclusion-probability weights […]
The CenSoc team is pleased to announce the release of four new and updated World War II Era Army Enlistment datasets for 2023. First, we have released the CenSoc WWII Army Enlistment Dataset (Version 1.0, N = 9.0 million), a cleaned and harmonized version of the National Archives and Records Administration’s Electronic Army Serial Number […]
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Demography, to work on the CenSoc Project. One-year appointment with possibility of one-year renewal. This appointment is contingent upon receipt of the Ph.D. prior to the start date. Start date is negotiable but as early as March 1st, 2023. Department Background The UC Berkeley Demography program is widely regarded […]
One of the great promises of the CenSoc datasets is the opportunity to pull back the curtain a bit more on how Americans in the twentieth century lived before they died. On behalf of the CenSoc team, I am excited to announce what may be the first empirical paper to use CenSoc data in that […]
After two years without a Population Association of America (PAA) annual meeting in person, we were thrilled to have had PAA in person this year! The conference was held April 6th-9th in Atlanta, Georgia, with a virtual option for those who could not attend in person. We are pleased to report numerous researchers used CenSoc […]
The CenSoc team is pleased to announce the release of CenSoc WWII Army Enlistment data sets. These data sets link the National Archives’ public release of WWII Army Enlistment Records to mortality data and the 1940 census. What are these data sets? The CenSoc-DMF-Enlistment and CenSoc-Numident-Enlistment files contain WWII-era Army Enlistment data alongside data from […]
The CenSoc team is pleased to announce the release of CenSoc Version 2.0, which links the 1940 Census to Social Security mortality records. This version uses an improved matching method, the ABE method developed by Abramitzky, Boustan, and Eriksson (2012, 2014, 2017, 2020). We implement a standard and conservative variant of this method, allowing researchers […]
The CenSoc team, led by Joshua Goldstein at the University of California, Berkeley, is pleased to announce the first public release of CenSoc individual-level administrative data for the study of mortality disparities. The CenSoc project links the 1940 U.S. Census to mortality records from several administrative sources. The first is the Death Master File (CenSoc-DMF), […]
Held on February 10, 2020, 11 AM – 2 PM, held at the Social Science Matrix Conference Room, UC Berkeley.. We had five speed talks: Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University) with Santiago Perez (UC Davis): Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources: a Fully Automated Approach Casey Breen (UC Berkeley): Race and Ethnic Response Changes: Evidence from the Social Security […]