Progress report and link rates

Here is our progress as of today, November 28, 2018. We have fewer than 1,000 Project 2 soldiers left to complete.

	Project 1	Project 2 - USCT
	n = 8,500	n = 4,500
Total soldiers complete	9343	4388
Soldiers completed during last  2 weeks	0	15
Soldiers w/o children (to be removed from sample)	843	826
% of completed soldiers w/o children	9.0	18.8
Soldiers with children complete	8500	3562
% with children complete	100	79.2
# soldiers with children left to complete	0	938

Here are the link rates for the soldiers and children in each of the three Project 1 samples. The link rate tells you how successful we were at finding the individual in the census or death records. As you can see, we did a pretty good job linking the soldiers and their children to their records.

Project 1 Link Rates - Soldiers

Non-Pow White

			% FOUND
	TOTAL #	# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR	1850	1860	1870	1880	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	DEATH DATE FOUND
ALL	9343	70	75	77	80	90	95	95	92	94	81	99.9

POW

			% FOUND
	TOTAL #	# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR	1850	1860	1870	1880	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	DEATH DATE FOUND
ALL	1997	19	78	77	80	91	94	94	92	85	27	99.4

Andersonville Brothers

			% FOUND
	TOTAL #	# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR	1850	1860	1870	1880	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	DEATH DATE FOUND
ALL	197	8	87	82	85	90	96	96	95	67	NA	97.9

Project 1 Link Rates - Children

Non-POW White

			% FOUND
	TOTAL #	# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR	1850	1860	1870	1880	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	DEATH DATE FOUND
ALL CHILDREN	45010	4241	61	80	83	87	78	75	73	71	61	78
SONS	23012	2417	58	81	83	87	79	76	75	74	65	81
DAUGHTERS	21998	1824	64	80	83	87	78	73	71	67	58	75
DAUGHTERS - MAR	3274	77	72	82	86	91	87	86	84	82	70	81
DAUGHTERS NOT MAR	18724	1747	61	80	83	86	76	71	68	64	55	74

POW

			% FOUND
	TOTAL #	# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR	1850	1860	1870	1880	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	DEATH DATE FOUND
ALL CHILDREN	9236	893	49	78	84	88	79	75	74	71	63	81
SONS	4729	492	44	76	85	88	79	76	77	75	66	84
DAUGHTERS	4507	401	55	81	83	88	79	74	72	68	60	78
DAUGHTERS - MAR	568	8	83	88	86	93	87	86	84	82	73	83
DAUGHTERS NOT MAR	3939	393	51	80	83	87	78	72	70	66	58	77

Andersonville Brothers

			% FOUND
	TOTAL #	# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR	1850	1860	1870	1880	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	DEATH
ALL CHILDREN	668	50	78	91	84	88	75	70	69	65	55	65
SONS	356	26	75	94	83	90	77	75	74	70	61	68
DAUGHTERS	312	24	80	86	85	87	73	65	63	59	49	61
DAUGHTERS - MAR	36	2	NA	NA	100	92	83	81	80	78	69	67
DAUGHTERS NOT MAR	276	22	80	86	83	86	72	63	61	56	46	61

Progress report - September 26

Here is our progress as of today, September 26, 2018.

	Project 1	Project 2 - USCT
	n = 8,500	n = 4,500
Total soldiers complete	9336	4212
Soldiers completed during last  week	0	9
Soldiers w/o children (to be removed from sample)	836	786
% of completed soldiers w/o children	9.0	18.7
Soldiers with children complete	8500	3426
% with children complete	100	76.1
# soldiers with children left to complete	0	1074

Non-POW White data improvement (searching for death causes)

Total number to be searched	9109
Number assigned	8840
Number completed	8325
%  of total completed	91.4%
Number of death causes added	4761
Death causes added (% of completed)	57.2%

Death causes

You are probably all already doing this, but I thought I'd write a post to make sure we're all on the same page.

When you find a death cause, please check if there are any other medical conditions besides those in the primary or contributory causes of death. If there are, please record them in the Remarks field. You can label them in the remarks using the label on the certificate. For example, if it says: "Other significant conditions," you may use that as the label.

Progress report - July 11

Here is our progress as of yesterday, July 11, 2018

	Project 1	Project 2 - USCT
	n = 8,500	n = 4,500
Total soldiers complete	9253	4143
Soldiers completed during last  2 weekS	119	24
Soldiers w/o children (to be removed from sample)	831	774
% of completed soldiers w/o children	9.0	18.7
Soldiers with children complete	8422	3369
% with children complete	99.1	74.9
# soldiers with children left to complete	78	1131

As you can see, we're nearly finished with Project 1. Actually, several soldiers have been completed since I compiled this report. We should be able to finish data collection by next week (I hope by Wednesday). We have between 60 and 70 soldiers left to complete.

Please review your current Project 1 assignment. Let me know if you will not be able to complete it by next week (I understand that you will be giving me estimates). If you can't, I will reassign some of your soldiers to another inputter.

Don't worry, after we complete data collection, we will do some "data improvement" work. Primarily, we will be searching for death causes of soldiers, spouses and children for whom we have death dates. We might add additional census decades for these families as well.

You're all doing a great job. Thanks!