Woman and Child Wage Earners: Working Women in New York City Living at Home, 1907 (ICPSR 20721)

Version Date: Dec 21, 2007

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Principal Investigator(s):
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20721.v1

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Summary

This data collection contains information on young women who worked in factories, stores, and other enterprises in New York City and who were living at home with their parents. Information available includes industry, occupation, ethnicity, age, years of experience, weekly earnings, and weekly contribution to the family.

Citation

Goldin, Claudia. Woman and Child Wage Earners: Working Women in New York City Living at Home, 1907. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-12-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20721.v1

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Subject Terms

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, VOL. 5 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910-1911).

Universe

Working women in New York City living in their parents' home.

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, from which these data were taken, is a 19-volume study of four primary industries and various related subjects. These data are in Volume 5 of this study.

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Original Release Date

2007-12-21

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: Working Women in New York City Living at Home, 1907. ICPSR20721-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-12-21. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20721.v1

2007-12-21 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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