Weekly update - March 30, 2022

Here is our weekly update for March 30, 2022.  

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 1,444 of 1826 soldiers or 79.1%

o   Including 8,666 of 11,273 granddaughters or 76.9%

Weekly update - March 9, 2022

Here is our weekly update for March 9, 2022. 

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 1,141 of 1826 soldiers or 62.5%

o   Including 6,607 of 11,264 granddaughters or 58.7%

 

Nothing else to report. We continue to make rapid progress on the granddaughters.

Weekly update - March 2, 2022

Here is our weekly update for March 2, 2022.

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 977 of 1826 soldiers or 53.5%

o   Including 5,814 of 11,264 granddaughters or 51.6%

Grandchildren

·         Coralee is preparing the grandchildren data for public release. We still need to finalize the code book and double check the data.

Weekly update - February 23, 2022

Here is our weekly update for February 23, 2022. 

Granddaughters of Veterans

• Sample B granddaughters.

    We have completed 900 of 1826 soldiers or 49.3%

    Including 5,351 of 11,264 granddaughters or 47.5%

Wives

• There are a few small problems for Heather to fix, but Coralee will probably be ready to send the wives sample to Dora tomorrow (2/24). 

• QUESTION: Some of the wives in the sample are grandchildren of the vet who married first cousins. Our rule has always been to mark relationships on the grid in the direct line to the vet, so they are all marked as grandchildren (or children of children of the vet) not as spouses. Should we somehow indicate in the data that these are grandchildren as well as spouses of other grandchildren?

Dora's answer: useful to be able to identify that a spouse is a veteran descendant so, yes, please do indicate that.

Weekly update - February 2, 2022

Here is our weekly update for February 2, 2022.

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 588 of 1826 soldiers or 32.2%

o   Including 3,612 of 11,264 granddaughters or 32.1%

o   Progress will slow because only Noelle and Heather are working on it.

Grandchildren

·         Coralee is finalizing the Grandchildren data to release.

Wives

·         Coralee is compiling the new (corrected) data with the targeted wives for Dora. Since we finished correcting the GEDCOMs, Coralee is extracting that data and will download VCC data today.

Grandchildren Links to 1940

·         Coralee did some calculations regarding merging the two different 1940 full census sources, and looked closely at the occupation coding in the full-count file that she was using to retrieve the occupation codes.

o   She thinks it would take months longer to complete the merging process and have all of their codes. There are a lot of inconsistencies in their coding that she can't account for, and a lot of differences between their coding and our coding.

o   It will be faster and consistent with the rest of our data for us to code the occupations ourselves.

Sample Descriptions

·         We have been working on a Google sheet with descriptions of all our samples.

·         We’ve included the following information:

o   Project (sample name)

o   Dates

o   Number in sample/description

o   What was collected

o   Which data collection screens used

o   Where data is available

o   Who worked on it

o   Is there a codebook for the sample

·         Dora let us know if you would like us to share it with you.

Weekly update - December 15, 2021

Here is our weekly update for December 15, 2021. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 10,778 wives of 9,924 sons and grandsons

·         Only one person is still working on wives. We are deciding whether another person can help her finish.

 

# Sons of veteran	3352
# Grandsons of veteran	6572
# Wives of sons and grandsons	10778
# Veterans complete	1932
Total # veterans	1959
% sample complete	98.6

 

·         Limited 1940 census variables for Sample B grandsons

o   Those of us who have finished our work on the wives sample are adding 1940 variables to the death screen for grandsons

o   We have completed 1026 soldiers or 56.2% of Sample B

·         It will not take us much longer to finish the limited 1940 variables. What should we do next? Add death screens for Sample B granddaughters?

 

MVCC Update

Now that finals are over, Giles is waiting to be set up as an NBER consultant before resuming work on the MVCC screen fixes, changes and report functions.

Weekly update - December 1, 2021

Here is our weekly update for December 1, 2021. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 10,495 wives of 9,650 sons and grandsons

 

# Sons of veteran	3267
# Grandsons of veteran	6383
# Wives of sons and grandsons	10495
# Veterans complete	1889
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	96.3

 

Update on Full-count Merging

·         Coralee has been working on the 1940 full count census merging and has discovered more problems than initially anticipated in merging with our data.  Here are the problems she has found:

 

o   The variables that the IPUMS people suggested merging on aren't in 1940 after all, not in the IPUMS file or in the GEDCOMs. Coralee has some alternate ideas for merging, but it will take longer to figure out.

 

o   The mechanical matching of the names (finding the most similar name on the page) is going to be very problematic for women with maiden/married names. Coralee thinks she has a way around this problem, but, again, it will just will take longer.

 

o   The biggest issue is that when she looks closely at one person in all three places (our sample, the full-count, and the census manuscript), the variables that we are interested in are null values in the full-count file, but present on the census manuscript. This is a sample size of one, she says, so maybe this problem isn't as widespread after all. She is looking at it closer today.

 

·         Coralee is also still working on getting occupation codes from 1930. With the amount of time it will take her to do 1940, she was wondering if maybe it would be better for the inputters to go back to the manuscripts for 1940 values and input them in the 1940 screen (or the 1940 section on the obit screen) while she finishes the 1930 work.  However, we realize we are limited in time before people’s contracts run out.

Weekly update - November 17, 2021

Here is our weekly update for November 17, 2021. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 9,921 wives of 9,118 sons and grandsons

 

# Sons of veteran	3086
# Grandsons of veteran	6032
# Wives of sons and grandsons	9921
# Veterans complete	1779
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	90.7

 

·         We should be finished with the wives collection in a few weeks.

 

MVCC Update

·         Due to whiplash from a car accident the end of the semester approaching, Giles says that reports development for the MVCC screens has slowed significantly.

 

Grands Progress

·         Coralee continues working on the full count census merging process.

 

·         She is finalizing the grands dataset, making sure the codebook is current and data is ready.

 

·         She has the codebook up ready for us to review and edit.  We are trying to determine the best method for accomplishing this so that several of us can provide input.

 

·         Sandy completed the location coding, so Coralee will now incorporate those codes into the dictionary and then update the grands dataset with the new codes.

 

End of Project

·         Alterra has requested that Noelle send her a list of equipment that people have at home along with as much detail as possible, including acquisition dates.  Someone, maybe Annalisa, should be able to find this information on the server, probably in the last (2019?) tax inventory. 

 

Future Possibilities

·         Are any UCLA grad students working with the data that might have some ideas for future grants?

Weekly update - October 20, 2021

Here is our weekly update for October 20, 2021.

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 8,243 wives of 7,566 sons and grandsons.

# Sons of veteran	2565
# Grandsons of veteran	5001
# Wives of sons and grandsons	8243
# Veterans complete	1455
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	74.2

 

 

 

Grands Progress

·         Coralee continues to work on the codebook and will assign out more location coding. She is also beginning to make some progress linking 1940.   

MVCC Update

 

·         Giles is working on the report functions for the MVCC screens.

 

Weekly update - October 13, 2021

Here is our weekly update for October 13, 2021.

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         Everyone is back to working on the wives again after work was completed on the Urban set of 50 veterans. 

·         We’ve collected 7,743 wives of 7,102 sons and grandsons

 

# Sons of veteran	2408
# Grandsons of veteran	4694
# Wives of sons and grandsons	7743
# Veterans complete	1359
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	69.2

 

Grands Progress

·         Coralee is working on the codebook and melding Samples A and B while awaiting word from Matt Nelson to see if he can help with 1940 and the full count merging.

MVCC Update

 

·         After completing an abbreviated version of the mil info to help while we were working on Urban, Giles is now focusing on creating a report function for the MVCC screens.