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Cost of Living Index for the American States, 1960-2003 (ICPSR 1275)
Released/updated on: 2005-03-15
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1960-01-01--2003-01-01
The authors constructed a state cost of living index for the 48 continental United States, measured annually for the period 1960 through 2003 (to update an index for 1960-1995 introduced in the authors' May 2000 Journal of Politics article).
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Cost of Living in the United States, 1917-1919 (ICPSR 8299)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1917-01-01--1919-01-01
This collection contains data obtained from families of wage earners or salaried workers in industrial locales scattered throughout the United States. The purpose of the survey was to estimate the cost of living of a "typical" American family. The completed questionnaires contain information about income sources and family expenditures including specific quantities and costs of food, housing, clothing, fuel, furniture, and miscellaneous household items for the calendar year. Demographic characteristics recorded for each household member include relationship to head, age, sex, occupation, weeks spent in the household and employed, wage rate, and total earnings.
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Cost of Living of Industrial Workers in the United States and Europe, 1888-1890 (ICPSR 7711)
Released/updated on: 2006-12-07
Geographic coverage: Great Britain, Belgium, United States, Europe, France, Switzerland, Germany, Global
Time period: 1888-01-01--1890-01-01
These data were gathered in order to determine the cost of living as well as the cost of production in selected industries in the United States and several Western European countries. The study is comprised of nine industries (cotton and woolen textiles, glass, pig iron, bar iron, steel, bituminous coal, coke, and iron ore) and contains family-level information on the household composition, income and expenditures of workers in these industries. Additional topics covered include sources of income, ages and sex of children, detailed occupation of the household head, detailed expenditures for food as well as nonfood items, and characteristics of the family's dwelling units.
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Simple Crosstabs
Edmonton Transitions Study (ETS), Canada, 1985-2017 (ICPSR 39177)
Released/updated on: 2025-06-04
Geographic coverage: Canada, Alberta
Time period: 1985-01-01--2017-01-01
The Edmonton Transitions Study (ETS) is a longitudinal study that surveyed adults eight times from age 18 until age 50 (Waves 1 through 8). The study's original focus of understanding school to work transitions broadened over time to include other life transitions. In 1985 (Wave 1), 983 grade 12 students from six high schools in Edmonton completed surveys. Follow-up surveys at ages 19 (Wave 2, 1986), 20 (Wave 3, 1987), 22 (Wave 4, 1989), 25 (Wave 5, 1992), 32 (Wave 6, 1999), 43 (Wave 7, 2010), and 50 (Wave 8, 2017) were completed. Data were gathered over the years using paper-pencil questionnaires, computer-assisted telephone interviewing, and web-based surveys.
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Eight City Study of Child Political Socialization, 1961-1962 (ICPSR 7297)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: United States, Chicago, Maine, Sioux City, California, Washington, San Francisco, Jackson (Mississippi), Tacoma, Mississippi, Iowa, Atlanta, Illinois, Massachusetts, Georgia, Portland (Maine), Boston
Time period: 1961-01-01--1962-01-01
This study sought to measure children's early receptiveness to political concepts. A structured questionnaire was administered to a sample of white urban public school children in grades 2 through 8 from eight American cities: Boston, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine, Chicago, Illinois, Sioux City, Iowa, Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson, Mississippi, San Francisco, California, and Tacoma, Washington. Information was collected on attitudes toward real people and roles, opinions concerning the origin, relevance, and supremacy of laws, and cognizance of current affairs and issues. All grades were given the same physical questionnaire, but only grades 4 through 8 completed it in its entirety. Grades 2 and 3 stopped after they had reached their respective limits.
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Representation and Development in Brazil, 1972-1973 (ICPSR 7712)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-18
Geographic coverage: South America, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Global, Latin America
Time period: 1972-01-01--1973-01-01
Conducted in 1973-1974 in Brazil, this survey was designed to measure two sets of respondents' preferences regarding salient policy issues, their evaluations of political life and government performance, and their conceptions of relationships between themselves and their representatives in labor unions and in the political arena at large. Interview schedules for each group of respondents are nearly identical, but the sampling frames are very different. Therefore, the data from the separate samples are supplied as Part 1 (Mass Sample) and Part 2 (Union Sample) in two separate files. Variables include respondents' preferences as to which course of action the government should take in each of a series of policy domains, ranging from birth control and income redistribution to the limits on political opposition and governmental controls over organized labor. There are variables indicating respondents' opinions elicited on several current issues of controversy, including the political role of the military, censorship, and the system of indirect elections. The survey also contains data on the respondents' degree of organizational involvement of unionized workers, including variables pertaining to their participation in sindicatos (unions), their evaluation of the performance of the sindicato leadership, and indications of how the represented might hold the leadership to account for their actions. Additional variables deal with membership evaluation of sindicato functions and influence, respondents' party identification, past electoral choices, and evaluations of post-1964 government policies. Other variables include respondents' interest in politics and in the operation of government, as well as their perceptions of the effect of government on their lives. Variables provided by the interviewers include perceptions of the respondents' interest in the interview, the sincerity with which questions were answered, and the presence and behavior of other persons at the interview. A full range of background information is also contained in the data collection, including variables on respondents' age, sex, race, religion, educational level, occupation, income, marital status, birthplace, father's education and occupation, migration, and media use.
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Rival Unionism and Membership Growth in the United States, 1897-2005 (ICPSR 27281)
Released/updated on: 2010-05-20
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1897-01-01--2005-01-01
This study utilizes time-series data from 1897-2005 to explore the positive and negative effects of rivalry between labor unions. Utilizing econometric factors, it also investigates how competition from rival union federations and independent unions affects union density. Variables include counts of pro-labor and pro-management unfair labor practice cases adjudicated by the National Labor Relations Board, competitor union membership ratio and number ratio, the annual percentage change in union density, and the percentage change in the density of AFL/AFL-CIO membership. Other variables include the percentage of United States House members who belong to the Democratic Party, the percentage of popular votes in presidential elections that favored Socialist or Communist parties, core employment and unemployment, the consumer price index (CPI), and the labor union historical periods: Western Labor Union (WLU), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Trade Union Unity League (TUUL), Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), and Change to Win (CTW).
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Study of Consumer Purchases in the United States, 1935-1936 (ICPSR 8908)
Released/updated on: 2009-06-29
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1935-01-01--1936-01-01
In 1935, the principal investigators interviewed a national sample of all families in the United States to ascertain for the first time in a single national survey the earning and spending habits of inhabitants of large and small cities, villages, and farms. Families completed questionnaires that reported in detail all household income sources and expenditures. Respondents were asked to list the amount of all income received by the family from each person employed as well as from other sources such as gifts, interest and dividends, pensions, and work in the home. Complete information was also provided on family composition, type of living quarters, housing accommodations, fuel and other utility expenses, medical care, recreational activities, tobacco use, purchase of reading materials, educational expenses, miscellaneous occupational expenses, gifts furnished, taxes paid, automobile expenses, personal care costs, and a detailed appraisal of all changes in family assets and liabilities over the course of the previous year. Families also reported the quantity of food items consumed, unit purchase price, and total expense of all food items consumed by the family in the seven days prior to the interview. In addition, families were queried on furnishings and equipment purchased for the home as well as on all items of clothing purchased for each family member in the previous year. Demographic characteristics recorded for each household member include relationship to the household head, age, sex, occupation, weeks spent at home or away from home, wage rate, length of time employed during the year, and total earnings.