Understand trends in aging, health, and retirement through historical analysis

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2017 UA Data User Meeting Presentations
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- Subsets of our best variables
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A New Intergenerational Processes and Aging Data Set
THE VETERANS' CHILDREN'S CENSUS SAMPLE

- One-of-a-kind multigenerational data set
- Meticulously hand linked census using military and vital records
- Death Dates and Causes
- Families connected across time
- Large sample size
- High link rates -- including both soldiers’ sons and married daughters
- Data about Women! Spouses and daughters living outside the veteran’s household
Three Separate Samples:
- Andersonville Brothers – Veterans held in Andersonville prison and their non-POW brothers
- Prisoner of War – White Union Army veterans who were POWs
- Non-POW white – White Union Army veterans who were never POWs
Forthcoming!
Intergenerational Processes and Aging data set of approximately 4,500 African-Americans
- The Oldest Oldsample consisting of over 1,500 veterans who survived to age 95 or older
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