New Survey of London Life and Labor, 1929-1931 (ICPSR 8539)

Version Date: Jun 30, 2010

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Principal Investigator(s):
Barry Eichengreen

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08539.v2

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Summary

This dataset provides information on unemployment and labor-force participation among working class residents of interwar London. Variables include information on household composition, hours worked both last week and in a full week, last week's earnings and full week's wages, weekly cost of transport to and from work, receipt of unemployment benefits, pension income, poor relief, amount of rent, and income from other sources such as subletting rooms.

Citation

Eichengreen, Barry. New Survey of London Life and Labor, 1929-1931. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-06-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08539.v2

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES 839-8994)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1929 -- 1931

Date of Collection

1983 -- 1986
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Sample

Ten percent sample of the New Survey of London Life and Labor plus a supplementary sample of 50 percent of the households containing at least one unemployed person.

Universe

Working class residents of London.

Data Source

New Survey of London Life and Labor, gathered by the London School of Economics under the direction of Hubert Llewellyn Smith

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1987-01-12

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:
  • Eichengreen, Barry. New Survey of London Life and Labor, 1929-1931. ICPSR08539-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-06-30. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08539.v2

2010-06-30 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

1987-01-12 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:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
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