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Professor
Mark
Tebeau
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Cleveland State University
Spring Semester 2006
MC 105
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Using
the Census
The
University of Virginia has developed an excellent resource for using the
census online, the Historical
United States Census Data Browser.
The
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History has
an excellent series of essays about immigration and migration to the Cleveland
region, some of which contain data. CSU's The
Northern Ohio Data and Information Service or NODIS, has information
on the region's population in 1990 and 2000, as does the Mandel School
at CWRU, which has a "Can
Do" database that possesses much information on Cuyahoga County
by neighborhood from 1980 through 2000. I have
a table of census data for Ohio, Cuyahoga County, and townships for the
period from 1860-1900. It is delineated into a number of categories
and although hardly comprehensive past students have found it useful.
It is formatted as an excel document.
The
United States Census Bureau also includes historical data on its website,
see for example:
The United States Census Bureau, "Historical
Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States:
1850-1990"
The United States Census Bureau, Selected
Historical Decennial Census
Population and Housing Counts
For more data on the population of small areas within Cleveland from
1930 to the present, use the census materials available at the reference
desk in CSU's library. Making sense of tract and block level data can
be difficult, and the University of North Carolina libraries has a primer
on using these guides. SEE http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/govinfo/census/smallhist.html
For a more exhaustive list of documents and materials related to the census,
including many online sources, see American Library Association Government
Documents Round Table, Government Information Technology Committee's report
on the Historical
Census. (They also have a "Census
2000 Toolkit".)
1 Prepare
for Class Discussion
- Be
prepared to answer the following questions:
- Use
the Historical United States Census Data Browser to consider the issues
involved in using the census as a source in your projects; also begin
think about what these numbers tell you and do not tell you.
- What
are the challenges of using this website? What other information do
you need to know in order to make the census useful to your study? What
sorts of things might you ask? What strategies should you adopt in using
census data?
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Finally, be prepared to discuss the census as a historical source.
2 Prepare
a data table of population that helps to understand migration and immgration
to Tremont
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Assignment ******
Create a table of population for the following years: 1880, 1900,
1920, 1930, 1950, 1970;Determine the following: Total Population;
Total Population, foreign born; Total Population of an ethnic group
associated with your site or with Tremont (i.e. Poles, Ukrainians,
Czechs, Lemkos, etc.); Total Population of African Americans. Figure
percentages of the total for each of those groups.
Procedure:
- Create
a base table for the state of Ohio
- Create
a comparative table for Cuyahoga County
- Create
another comparative table of the population of Cleveland, using the
printed census for the same years
- Create
another comparative table of the population of Tremont, using the printed
census at the Tract Level (Tract D7 or D8), for the same years.
Bring two
copies of your results to class, one to hand in for me and one that you
can use to take notes. Also, I recommend putting your results in a simple
excel spreadsheet.
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