Woman and Child Wage Earners: Adrift, 1907 [New York City and Philadelphia] (ICPSR 20700)

Version Date: Jan 3, 2008

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Principal Investigator(s):
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20700.v1

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Summary

This data collection contains information on women workers living apart from their families, or "adrift," in New York City and Philadelphia. It is similar in origin to the WOMAN AND CHILD WAGE EARNERS (ICPSR 20702), WOMAN AND CHILD WAGE EARNERS, MARRIED (ICPSR 20720), and WOMAN AND CHILD WAGE EARNERS, WORKING WOMEN IN NEW YORK CITY LIVING AT HOME (ICPSR 20721) data collections. Somewhat more comprehensive information exists for it than for the ICPSR 20721 sample, which is very similar in content. The data for this sample were collected for women living apart from their families of origin. Variables include: age, work experience, ethnicity, average weekly earnings, and whether the place of work was a store or manufacturing enterprise. In addition to these variables there is information on years of schooling, weekly expenditures for car fare, shelter and food, and remittances home or contributions to other relatives. It should be emphasized that the respondents were asked about their years of schooling. The education variable, therefore, is not derived but was given by the women, which is quite extraordinary for the period. Additionally, there is no information on the marital status of these women. It is presumed that they are either unmarried, widowed, or divorced (or separated) because they are all living apart from other family members.

Citation

Goldin, Claudia. Woman and Child Wage Earners: Adrift, 1907 [New York City and Philadelphia]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-01-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20700.v1

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Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1907
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Sample

See US Senate Documents, REPORT ON CONDITION OF WOMAN AND CHILD WAGE-EARNERS IN THE U.S. IN 19 VOLUMES, VOLS. 86-104 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910-1911).

Universe

Women workers in New York City and Philadelphia in 1907, living apart from their families.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

See: US Senate Documents, REPORT ON CONDITION OF WOMAN AND CHILD WAGE-EARNERS IN THE U.S. IN 19 VOLUMES, Vols. 86-104 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910-1911). This Senate report is a 19-volume study of four primary industries and various related subjects. The information in this file was taken from Volume 5 of the report. This volume concerned women living apart from their families, or "adrift," as the social reform movement termed their state.

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Original Release Date

2008-01-03

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Goldin, Claudia. Woman and Child Wage Earners: Adrift, 1907 [New York City and Philadelphia]. ICPSR20700-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-01-03. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20700.v1

2008-01-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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