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Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement: Using Linked Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data to Explore Household and Agricultural Systems

dc.contributor.authorSylvester, Kenneth M.
dc.contributor.authorLeonard, Susan Hautaniemi
dc.contributor.authorGutmann, Myron P.
dc.contributor.authorCunfer, Geoff
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-30T16:25:45Z
dc.date.available2008-07-30T16:25:45Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationHistory and Computing, vol.14, nos.1 and 2, 2006, pp.31-60 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60442>en
dc.identifier.issn0 957 0144
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/60442
dc.description.abstractThe Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement project (DEGS) is a study of the relationship between population and environment in Kansas during its settlement and conversion from grassland to grain cultivation and rangeland. The research team involved in this project had as its goal to bring together data about farms and farm families in order to understand the core transformations in land use and family dynamics that took place during the process of settling and developing an agricultural landscape. For reasons we will explain later, the state of Kansas – located near the centre of the U.S. in a grassland ecosystem – is ideally suited for this study by virtue of its location, history and the documents that exist about it. In order to capture the environmental variability of Kansas, we are assembling a linked database of farm and family census records for twenty-five townships scattered across the state. This paper is about the process of choosing that sample, about the data we have accumulated and about the process we are undertaking to link records about families and farms through time and to attempt to find their locations in space.en
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Press for the Association for History and Computingen
dc.subjectDemographyen
dc.subjectEnvironmenten
dc.subjectLand Useen
dc.subjectFarmsen
dc.subjectFarm Familiesen
dc.subjectPopulationen
dc.titleDemography and Environment in Grassland Settlement: Using Linked Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data to Explore Household and Agricultural Systemsen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelStatistics and Numeric Data
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden
dc.contributor.affiliationumInter-university Consortium for Political and Social Researchen
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of Saskatchewanen
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/60442/1/sylvester_etal.demography and environment.pdf
dc.owningcollnameInter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)


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