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I found the Fogel and Engerman article extremely interesting because of its focus on the growth of data collection over time involving labor, health, and socioeconomic conditions. The data from early revolutionary America revealing that people of poor nutrition experienced higher death rates and lack of labor ability. Obviously this is something we understand today but early data collection in the 1800’s showed this as factual and influenced ideas around labor and nutrition for the future. Data collection advanced into the late 1900’s when the DAE began to collect data on inter generational families in order to understand linkage to women in the workforce and migration statistics. This data can be used to understand labor patterns throughout the history of the United States and help prepare for the future.