Costs and Revenues of US Daily Newspapers, 1927 and 1930, Inland Daily Press Association (ICPSR 35160)

Version Date: May 14, 2014

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Principal Investigator(s):
Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago, and National Bureau of Economic Research; Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago, and National Bureau of Economic Research; Michael Sinkinson, University of Pennsylvania. The Wharton School

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35160.v1

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Summary

The focus of this data collection was the costs and revenues of United States daily newspapers in 1927 and 1930. Detailed cost and revenues for 94 and 104 newspapers respectively, were obtained from tables in annual reports. Costs include mechanical, delivery and maintenance, administrative and editorial, paper and ink, costs. Revenues include local, foreign, classified, and legals and reader advertising. Data is from a non-random sample and newspaper names are unavailable.

Citation

Gentzkow, Matthew, Shapiro, Jesse, and Sinkinson, Michael. Costs and Revenues of US Daily Newspapers, 1927 and 1930, Inland Daily Press Association. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-05-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35160.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES-0617658, SES-0922342)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

United States

Distributor(s)

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

1927, 1930
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Sample

The sample is a non-random subset of the member newspapers of the Inland Daily Press Association.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Unit(s) of Observation

Newspaper

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2014-05-14

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:
  • Gentzkow, Matthew, Jesse Shapiro, and Michael Sinkinson. Costs and Revenues of US Daily Newspapers, 1927 and 1930, Inland Daily Press Association. ICPSR35160-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-05-14. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35160.v1

2014-05-14 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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