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The creation of LIFE-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database project

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  • Martha Bailey
  • Peter Z. Lin
  • A. R. Shariq Mohammed
  • Paul Mohnen
  • Jared Murray
  • Mengying Zhang
  • Alexa Prettyman

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This paper describes the creation of the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database (LIFE-M), a new data resource linking vital records and decennial censuses for millions of individuals and families living in the late 19th and 20th centuries in the United States. This combination of records provides a life-course and intergenerational perspective on the evolution of health and economic outcomes. Vital records also enable the linkage of women, because they contain a crosswalk between women’s birth (i.e., “maiden”) and married names. We describe (1) the data sources, coverage, and linking sequence; (2) the process and supervised machine-learning methods used to link records longitudinally and across generations; and (3) the resulting linked samples, including linking rates, representativeness, and weights.

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  • Martha Bailey & Peter Z. Lin & A. R. Shariq Mohammed & Paul Mohnen & Jared Murray & Mengying Zhang & Alexa Prettyman, 2023. "The creation of LIFE-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database project," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(3), pages 138-159, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:vhimxx:v:56:y:2023:i:3:p:138-159
    DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2023.2239699
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