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| HS |
Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to
1970,
Bicentennial Edition (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau, 1975).
Citations to HS are to the series number, such as A 6 (“Total
Population”), not to the page number.
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| SA |
Statistical Abstract of the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census
Bureau, annual). Citations to SA are followed by the year and the table
number, not the page number. References to SA 1998 are to the CD-ROM
version, which includes more years for many of the tables.
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| CB |
U.S. Census Bureau.
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| Middletown I |
Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell
Lynd, Middletown: A Study in
American Culture (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1929).
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| Middletown II |
Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell
Lynd, Middletown in Transition: A
Study in Cultural Conflicts (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1937).
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| Middletown III |
Theodore Caplow led a team that replicated and extended the Lynds’
two original studies in the late 1970s with the support of the
National Science Foundation. The main findings were published in
two books: Theodore Caplow, Howard M. Bahr, Bruce A. Chadwick,
Reuben Hill, and Margaret Holmes Williamson, Middletown Families:
Fifty Years of Change and Continuity (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1982); and Theodore Caplow, Howard M. Bahr,
Bruce A. Chadwick, Dwight W. Hoover, Laurence A. Martin, Joseph
B. Tamney, and Margaret Holmes Williamson, All Faithful People:
Change and Continuity in Middletown’s Religion (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1983).
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| Middletown IV |
Theodore Caplow, Howard M. Bahr, Bruce A. Chadwick, and
Vaughn R. A. Call replicated two surveys in Middletown in 1999, the High School Survey and the Community Survey.
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| GPO |
U.S. Government Printing Office.
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| WA |
World Almanac and Book of Facts (Mahwah, N.J.: World Almanac
Books, annual). Citations to WA are followed by the year and the
page number.
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| NYT |
New York Times Almanac (New York: Penguin Reference Books,
annual). Citations to NYT are followed by the year and the page
number.
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| GSS |
General Social Survey conducted roughly annually by the National
Opinion Research Center; see www.norc.uchicago.edu/gss/homepage.htm and the information retrieval system at
www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS99/index.html .
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| HCS |
Margaret Werner Cahalan, Historical Corrections Statistics in the United
States, 1850–1954, Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ 102529
(Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1986).
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| Correction for Inflation |
All dollar figures were converted to 1999 dollars using Consumer Price Index conversion
factors
found at orst.edu/dept/pol_sci/fac/sahr/cv1999.pdf (accessed August 31, 2000).
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| Correction for Population Growth |
To standardize for population size, data from HS series A 6 and SA 1999, table 2, were
used. In most cases, the total population, rather than resident population or civilian
population, was used.
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