Rise of American Industrial Corporations, 1880-1914 (ICPSR 9392)

Version Date: Aug 11, 2011

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Principal Investigator(s):
William G. Roy

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09392.v2

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Summary

This collection is designed to allow examination of economic and social determinants of variation in incorporation rates by industry and state in the United States from 1880-1914. Data are presented for manufacturing corporations in all industries, with detailed data for specific states. Information covered includes economic characteristics of industries such as capital, workers, wages, material, value of products, common and preferred stock, and bonded indebtedness. Social characteristics of industries such as newness and strike activity also are provided.

Citation

Roy, William G. Rise of American Industrial Corporations, 1880-1914. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09392.v2

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES 86 17679)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1880 -- 1914

Date of Collection

1986 -- 1989

Data Collection Notes

  1. The data contain blanks and alphabetic characters. For Part 12, Information for Corporations Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, data for the 100 largest corporations in 1896-1905 were collected by David Bunting, University of Oregon.

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Sample

Complete enumeration, with states selected by availability of data.

Universe

Manufacturing corporations in all United States industries, 1880-1914.

Data Source

(1) United States Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF MANUFACTURES, 1880-1914, (2) Evans, George. BUSINESS INCORPORATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1800-1943, (3) GENERAL STATUTES OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1880-1887, (4) Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Labor, Strikes and Lockouts, 1887-1906, (5) MANUAL OF STATISTICS, 1888-1913, (6) Biennial Report of the Secretary of State, Colorado 1880-1888, (7) Report of the Secretary of State of Illinois, 1896, (8) Report of the Secretary of State of Florida, 1887-1896

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Original Release Date

1990-10-16

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:
  • Roy, William G. Rise of American Industrial Corporations, 1880-1914. ICPSR09392-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-11. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09392.v2

2011-08-11 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 14 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1990-10-16 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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