A Sampling Design for Mormon Utah, 1880

Mormon Culture Area for purposes of sampling the Utah Territory population in I880. With this sample as a baseline it will be possible to analyze structural change and population dynamics by successive linkage over time among different sources that encoded social identities and significant events in the life-cycle of individuals during the period from 1847 to I9oo.1 We distinguish between sources and records, as we would between aggregates and individuals. Sources are documents or collections of documents providing decipherable information. Records are decipherable lists identifying individuals (nominal records) together with individual-specific information.2 Initially, we shall be concerned with federal and Latter-day Saints church sources providing nominal records, where four types of record information are of particular concern

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