Microfilm reels containing images from the decennial censuses are digitally scanned to create digital images of the original forms.

In this paper, we document the 1990 Census Name Recovery Pilot (NRP) project, which was used to identify the most accurate and cost-effective means to recover respondent names, focusing on the example of the 1990 census.

This paper describes the DCDL, which is an initiative to produce linked restricted microdata files from the decennial censuses of 1960 through 1990.