Description
SURSIM assigns the same code to all persons within each household who had the same surname. Persons coded 1, including the household head, had the same surname as the household head. Other surnames are assigned codes in the order in which they appear within the household on the census form. Persons within a household who shared a surname will have the same code for this variable.
Comparability
Surnames are reported in the alphabetic variable NAMELAST. This variable is compatible with the IPUMS variable SURSIM.
Many families in the Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish samples do not have a shared family name, instead following patronymic naming conventions (where a child's last name is derived from his or her father's first name). Consequently, husbands and wives, as well as parents and children, frequently receive different SURSIM values.
SURSIM is not available for the Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1819 sample.
Universe
- Canada 1871: All persons
- Canada 1881: All persons
- Canada 1901: All persons
- Canada 1852: All persons
- Canada 1891: All persons
- Great Britain 1851: All persons
- Great Britain 1881: All persons
- Great Britain 1881: All persons
- Iceland 1801: All persons
- Iceland 1901: All persons
- Norway 1865: All persons
- Norway 1875: All persons
- Norway 1900: All persons
- Norway 1801: All persons
- Sweden 1900: All persons
- United States 1880: All persons
- United States 1850: All persons
- United States 1860: All persons
- United States 1870: All persons
- United States 1880: All persons
- United States 1900: All persons
- United States 1910: All persons
Codes and Frequencies
Availability
- Canada: 1852, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901
- Great Britain: 1851, 1881, 1881
- Iceland: 1801, 1901
- Norway: 1801, 1865, 1875, 1900
- Sweden: 1900
- United States: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1880, 1900, 1910
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