Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death Project (EI)

Public Use Tape on the Aging of Veterans of the Union Army

California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin Regiments

• Military, Pension, and Medical Records, 1820-1940, Version M-5 is the largest dataseta. The data is derived from miliary-related documents housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. These include both war-time records and applications made by veterans for pension support.
• Surgeons' Certificates 1860-1940: Version S-1 Unstandardized are associated with the pension applications are detailed physical examinations completed by physicians, certifying the veterans' health and disability status.
• U.S. Federal Census Records 1850, 1860, 1900, 1910, Version C-3 is a longitudnal dataset which follows individuals through four U.S. Federal Censuses. 22,115 (62.17%) of the soldiers were successfully matched to at least one of the Census years.

All Early Indicators data were collected under the direction of the Department of Economics at Brigham Young University (BYU) and processed by the Center for Population Economics (CPE) at the University of Chicago. Links to Working Papers are available at the CPE website

Send questions to jroth@nber.org

Last Update: January 4, 2001

Created by Jean Roth November 30, 2000