We are excited to announce the release of sibships in the Berkeley Unified Numident Mortality Database (BUNMD) and CenSoc-Numident dataset. Sibling comparisons are a useful tool that allow researchers to control for shared, unmeasured confounding variables. However, sibling relationships are not identified in administrative mortality data, and are difficult to establish in census data if […]
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 […]
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 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), […]