Student Projects - Sociology & Anthropology

Project Name

Newport RI Census

Project Description

Dr. Schlichting approached me about this project last semester. He was asked by the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island to produce a visual aid that would map out the distribution of people's country of origin in the different districts of Newport from the 1880 Census. We will use an historic GIS map of Newport to study patterns of the different nationalities, and compare it to today's distribution and observe commonalities.

In order to do this, we have been modifying a database using SPSS program and a Geographical Information System (GIS). Using the 1880 census, I entered the addresses of the various immigrants into the database. We eventually will be statistically analyzing this data and geocoding it to a 1880 map in order to study the ethnic make up of Newport, Rhode Island in 1880.

Project Outcomes

So far, I have entered the addresses for District 96, and have begun work on District 91.