Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Description
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 referring to different years from a sample of households for one Swedish city. A database was created by coding tax records and other documents for the city of Göteborg, the second largest city in Sweden.
The determination of which years to investigate was critical. For analysing changes over time it was thought as essential to have roughly equal numbers of years between years studied. Further, it was thought advisable to avoid years with too much macroeconomic turmoil as well as the years of the two World Wars. Balancing the resources for the data collection between the size of a sub sample and the number of subsamples, it was decided to assemble data for four years. The years 1925, 1936, 1947 and 1958 was chosen to investigate. It should be pointed out that the year 1947 was preferred to the following years as large social insurance reforms leading to increases in pension b
Language
Swedish
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Department of Social Work
Data contains personal data
No
Unit of analysis
Population
Households in Göteborg
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
1925-01-01 – 1958-12-31
Research area
Income, property and investment/saving, HISTORY
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Economic History
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
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Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Time period(s) investigated
1925 – 1925
Variables
70
Number of individuals/objects
6845
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Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Variables
78
Number of individuals/objects
7741
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Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Variables
66
Number of individuals/objects
7921
Citation
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Data format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Variables
57
Number of individuals/objects
9934