Family Budget Study: Massachusetts, 1874

Principal Investigator(s): Modell, John

Summary: This historical data collection was derived from interviews conducted in 1874 by the Massachusetts Department of Labor Statistics with workers in Massachusetts. The purpose was to analyze the budgets which various working families were using at the time. In addition to the occupation of the head of household, the data include the ethnicity of the household, the income(s) of the wage-earner(s), details about the family structure and household furnishings, budgeted items for various expenditures, ... (more info)

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Modell, John. Family Budget Study: Massachusetts, 1874. ICPSR09032-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1983. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09032.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09032.v1

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Summary: This historical data collection was derived from interviews conducted in 1874 by the Massachusetts Department of Labor Statistics with workers in Massachusetts. The purpose was to analyze the budgets which various working families were using at the time. In addition to the occupation of the head of household, the data include the ethnicity of the household, the income(s) of the wage-earner(s), details about the family structure and household furnishings, budgeted items for various expenditures, health of the family, and foods eaten. Each record represents a household.

Subject Terms: budgets, consumer attitudes, consumer behavior, cost of living, ethnicity, expenditures, family, health, households, income, labor force, nutrition, occupations, personal finances, population, quality of life, wages and salaries

Geographic Coverage: Massachusetts, United States

Time Period:

1874

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-05-11

1978

Modell, John . Patterns of consumption, acculturation, and family income strategies in late-nineteenth century America. Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.