• Inequality measures based on election data 1871 and 1892 for Swedish municipalities

The data contains inequality measures at the municipality-level for 1892 and 1871, as estimated in the PhD thesis "Institutions, Inequality and Societal Transformations" by Sara Moricz. The data also contains the source ...

• Financing the State: Government Tax Revenue from 1800 to 2012

This dataset presents information on historical central government revenues for 31 countries in Europe and the Americas for the period from 1800 (or independence) to 2012. The countries included are: Argentina, Australia...

• The role of energy infrastructure in shaping early adoption of electric and gasoline cars

Electric vehicles have a potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions but still face challenges. This study asks what can be learned from US automobile history. In 1900 there were three equal contenders in the US automoti...

• ISSP 2011 - Health

This survey is the Swedish part of the 2011 'International Social Survey Program' (ISSP), and it is the first time an ISSP-survey is focusing on health. Purpose: ISSP aims to design and implement internationally compar...

• Mexican Wealth Distribution 1810-1910

The zip files contain several files with wills from Mexico between 1810 and 1910 collected in order to measure Mexican wealth distribution in its first century of independence. The main file is wills_clean.xlsx, which co...

• The Regional Skåne SOM Survey 2015

This is the sixth SOM survey conducted in the region of Skåne. The questionnaire was divided into ten subject fields: Local news; Politics and democracy; To live in Skåne; Traffic and communications; Internet and mobile ...

• The National SOM Survey 2003

Since 1986 the SOM-institute has been carrying out an annual nation-wide survey of Swedish opinions. This is accordingly the eighteenth survey in this series. The SOM-institute is a collaboration between three department...

• Swedish election study 1956

In the first Swedish election study the respondents were interviewed twice, once before and once after the parliamentary election in September 1956. The pre-election schedule contained questions regarding interest in the...

• ISSP 1995 - National identity I: Sweden

This survey is the Swedish part of the 1995 'International Social Survey Program' (ISSP), and it focuses on national identity. Respondents were asked to comment on various topics regarding national identity, such as how ...

• Incomes in Göteborg 1947

The aim of this study is to throw light on why inequality in the distribution of income in Sweden fell from the mid-1920s to the second part of the 1950s. For this reason the project decided to collect income information...