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The Most Vital Statistics: Finding and Analyzing Historical Mortality Rates
This book chapter describes a hands-on data literacy instruction session designed for a US economic history undergraduate course. The session aims to teach students to find, critically analyze, and contextualize secondary data related to historical urban mortality rates in the United States. Students learn how to use a spreadsheet application (e.g., Excel) to interrogate historical trends in several major US cities and how to use library tools to discover supplementary sources to help explain trends that arise.
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- The Data Literacy Cookbook
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- October 31, 2022
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Rod, Alisa Beth, and Jennie Correia. 2022. “The Most Vital Statistics: Finding and Analyzing Historical Mortality Rates.” In The Data Literacy Cookbook, edited by Kelly Getz and Meryl Brodsky, 30–33. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.
