Saving and Dissaving By 12,817 American Households, 1917-1919 (ICPSR 6276)
Version Date: Jan 12, 2006 View help for published
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Martha L. Olney
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06276.v1
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This data collection contains information on annual savings and dissavings by households in the United States during 1917-1919, as well as data on the use of merchant or installment credit. Savings variables include purchases of Liberty Bonds, municipal bonds, War Savings Stamps, and Postal Savings Stamps, accumulations of cash in checking accounts, loan associations, savings accounts, and Christmas clubs, contributions to pension funds, payments on bills for tuition, fuel, medical care, groceries, and back taxes, investments in real estate and livestock, and purchases of stocks in various types of companies. Dissaving variables include amounts owed for tuition, clothes, medical care, car accessories, jewelry, rent, taxes, union dues, books, and insurance premiums, withdrawals from savings, amounts borrowed from employers, banks, loan associations, and friends, and sales of land, homes, furnishings, buggies, jewelry, and art work.
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This data collection supplements COST OF LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES, 1917-1919 (ICPSR 8299). The data are supplied in 24 separate files, each containing 10 or more variables. Each part uses the same respondent IDs as ICPSR 8299. Accordingly, users can merge each part with the data for ICPSR 8299 by matching on respondent IDs.
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The method of selection of the original Bureau of Labor Statistics sample is unclear, but it is felt that the sample fairly represents the urban population of the nation at the time of the interviews.
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Households in 99 "industrial cities" located throughout 42 states of the United States. See ICPSR 8299 for a more detailed description of the universe.
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United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Cost of Living Schedules, 1918-1919 (BLS-164)," on file at the National Archives, Washington, DC, Record Group 257, Accession NN-373-183.
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1995-06-05
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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:
- Olney, Martha L. SAVING AND DISSAVING BY 12,817 AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS, 1917-1919. Amherst, MA: Martha L. Olney, University of Massachusetts [producer], 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06276.v1
2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 25 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
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