Partnership: The United States
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Evan Roberts, Assistant Professor of History and Population Studies
Roles: US principal investigator, project management, supervision of programmers for United States and Great Britain data linkage, occupational and social class classification, and analysis of data for manuscript preparation
Steven Ruggles, Professor of History and Population Studies, and Director of the Minnesota Population Center
Roles: Analysis of data and manuscript preparation
John Robert Warren, Professor of Sociology
Roles: Occupational and social class classification, and analysis of data for manuscript preparation
Jaideep Srivastava, Professor of Computer Sciences and Engineering
Roles: Development of methods for data linkage in complete count datasets. Expertise in machine learning and support vector machines
Rebecca Vick, Research Fellow, Minnesota Population Center
Roles: Preparation of cross-sectional and linked census data files. Analysis of linked census data files
Tom Lynch
Roles: Development and implementation of programmes for linking individuals across censuses in the United States and Great Britain
Evan Roberts coordinated the NAPP project for most of the past decade, and he is Principal Investigator of a project to create complete-count microdata from the 1850 U. S. census. Roberts’ Ph. D. dissertation on female labor-force participation made extensive use of the NAPP data collection. Steven Ruggles, a historical demographer who has published on migration in both Britain and the United States, is responsible for developing complete-count microdata from the 1880 U. S. census, as well as numerous census samples. Jaideep Srivastava and Rebecca Vick contribute expertise in data mining and record-linkage technology. Finally, John Robert Warren has extensive experience in the modeling and measurement of occupational status and intergenerational mobility.
Partnership: Great Britain | Canada