{
  "artifact_kind": "mississippi_chinese_population_context",
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "points": [
    {
      "year": 1880,
      "value": 51,
      "geography": "Mississippi statewide",
      "precision": "exact published census count",
      "source": "Mississippi Historical Society, Chinese in Mississippi: An Ethnic People in a Biracial Society"
    },
    {
      "year": 1900,
      "value": 183,
      "geography": "Mississippi Delta",
      "precision": "exact published historical summary",
      "source": "Mississippi Encyclopedia, Chinese"
    },
    {
      "year": 1940,
      "value": 743,
      "geography": "Mississippi Delta",
      "precision": "exact published historical summary",
      "source": "Mississippi Encyclopedia, Chinese"
    },
    {
      "year": 1960,
      "value": 1200,
      "geography": "Mississippi Delta",
      "precision": "approximate published peak",
      "source": "Mississippi Encyclopedia, Chinese"
    },
    {
      "year": 1960,
      "value": 1244,
      "geography": "Mississippi statewide",
      "precision": "exact published census count",
      "source": "Mississippi Historical Society, Chinese in Mississippi: An Ethnic People in a Biracial Society",
      "note": "More than 90 percent lived in fourteen Delta counties."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/chinese/",
    "https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/mississippi-chinese-an-ethnic-people-in-a-biracial-society"
  ],
  "scope_limit": "Statewide and Delta figures are separately labeled and must not be treated as one continuous population series."
}