ICPSR Metadata record for Boston Mobility Study, 1880 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Boston Mobility Study, 1880 Thernstrom, Stephen Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 1992-02-16 7550 doi://10.3886/ICPSR07550.v1
This study was conducted to examine patterns of social mobility in Boston, Massachusetts. It contains individual-level demographic information such as amount of property, occupation, location of residence, and income at ten year intervals. It also contains a derived measure of intergenerational prestige mobility.
 UniverseScheme07550 ICPSR.II.C biographical data census data social mobility Boston, Massachusetts, United States 1880 1930 Population of Boston, Massachusetts. The study consists of a sample base of data drawn from the 1880 United States census and a longitudinal extension through 1930, by decade, of selected variables. The extension was drawn from the Boston City Directory, marriage records in 1910, and birth records in 1930. ICPSR
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