Cost of living in the United States
Subtitle: 1917-1919
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Series: ICPSR -- 8299; ICPSR (Series) -- 8299
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Cost and standard of living
Description: 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.
Notes: survey data

ICPSR data class: Class II

Chronological coverage: 1917-1919, data collected: July 1918-February 1919.

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National Endowment for the Humanities , RT-20344-83, and RT-20576-85

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Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 12,817 ; variable count: 2,224 ; logical record length: 6,942 ; records per case: 112

Universe: Industrial workers and their families in 99 cities in the United States.