How do I figure out mortality statistics for people born in 1890?
You want the publication called ‘Vital Statistics Rates in the United States 1900-1940’ for the second one. I have the giant PDF on my computer, and I think it came from the NIH website somewhere, definitely not the census bureau. Mortality rate is relatively simple to calculate if you have the bulk statistics. The 1900 census statistics (the file names are horrible – 13982433v4_TOC.pdf for instance) which are available on the census website has a chart, somewhere in the file that ends v4ch1.pdf, of mortality from 1850-1900. That being said, you don’t just want mortality tables – you want male mortality tables, and specifically you might want age-restricted data. I have to go to work, but I have 1850-1950 male mortality calculated for one state, for instance, for men 20 and over (I needed it for my thesis.) Briefly, though, the CDR for Connecticut males looks like this: CDR all CT SDR Males 20+ 1850 15.59 15.776 1860
