Reports of the American Indian Family History Project, 1885-1930

The Reports of the American Indian Family History Project
was a study aimed at examining demographic trends among Native
Americans families during the late 1800s and early 1900s utilizing
census data, collected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the
Census Bureau. Specifically, this study observed the behavior of
Native American families from the Colville, Creek, Crow, Hopi, and
White Earth Chippewa tribes at the time of the 1885, 1900, 1910, and
1930 censuses, although data were not available for all tribes in all
years. Common among each dataset in the collection are variables on
the respondent's age, sex, and family size. Also appearing in each
dataset in the collection are variables describing the respondent's
relation to the head of his or her household, number of children born
to the respondent, and the familial status of the respondent's mother,
father, and spouse. The data from 1900 and 1910 include socioeconomic
variables relating to occupation, education, and home ownership. Also
unique to the 1900 and 1910 data are variables that more specifically
categorize the race and ethnicity of the respondent. Language and
marital status variables appear in the 1900, 1910, and 1930 data as
well.