Historical Population Estimates for 2010 U.S. States, Counties and Metro/Micro Areas, 1790-2010

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1790
2010

Date completed

2016-08-09

Date updated

Time period coverage

1790-2010

Geographic coverage

United States of America

Source information

Minnesota Population Center. National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota 2011.

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Historical Population Estimates for 2010 U.S. States, Counties and Metro/Micro Areas, 1790-2010

Published Date

2016-08-10

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Schroeder, Jonathan P
jps@umn.edu

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Survey Data-Quantitative

Abstract

The core of this data set is a series of historical population estimates for each U.S. decennial census year, 1790-2010, for all U.S. counties and county equivalents (excluding Puerto Rico and other territories), using spatially fixed 2010 county definitions. The data set also includes additional statistics derived from the county data, including historical population estimates for 2010 states and for metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas (i.e., core-based statistical areas, or CBSAs) following both 2009 and 2013 CBSA definitions. Errors may be substantial in many cases, so users should not give great weight to any single estimate in analyses. However, for broad studies covering large regions or timespans, errors may generally have a small impact, and using these spatially standardized data enables a broad range of visualization and analytical approaches that would not otherwise be applicable. The data were originally generated for use in the production of an atlas of U.S. population distribution and change, which has not been published. The author has also used the data in the production of conference posters.

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Complete documentation provided in accompanying PDF file.

Referenced by

Schroeder, J. (2012). US county population trends, 1790-2010: New perspectives using spatial standardized data. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in New York, NY.
http://users.pop.umn.edu/~jps/county_trends
Schroeder, J. (2013). US Metropolitan Populations, 1790-2010. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Annual Meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) in Greenville, SC.
http://users.pop.umn.edu/~jps/metro_trends
Schroeder, Jonathan Paul. (2009). Visualizing patterns in U.S. Urban population trends. Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/48076

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National Institutes of Health [NICHD RO1HD057929]
National Science Foundation [SES-1324875]
National Institutes of Health [NICHD R24HD041023]

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Schroeder, Jonathan P. (2016). Historical Population Estimates for 2010 U.S. States, Counties and Metro/Micro Areas, 1790-2010. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), http://doi.org/10.13020/D6XW2H.
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Schroeder_HistPopEst_1790-2010.pdfData Documentation606.81 KB
state2010_hist_pops.xlsxState Population Estimates and Related Statistics, 1790-2010115.44 KB
county2010_hist_pops.xlsxCounty Population Estimates and Related Statistics, 1790-20108.74 MB
cbsa2009_hist_pops.xlsx2009 CBSA Population Estimates and Related Statistics, 1790-2010842.4 KB
cbsa2013_hist_pops.xlsx2013 CBSA Population Estimates, 1790-2010209.34 KB
Archival Version of Spreadsheets.zipContains .csv and .txt versions of Excel data files5.7 MB

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