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
Subject area
Income, property and investment/saving, HISTORY
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Economic History
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Principal organisation
Accessibility status
Responsible department/unit
University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Identifiers
SND-ID: SND 0783
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
Time period(s) investigated
1925-01-01 — 1958-12-31
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Göteborg Municipality
Geographic description: Göteborg
Unit of analysis
Population
Households in Göteborg
Time Method
Funding
Swedish Council for Social Research
Subject area
Income, property and investment/saving, HISTORY
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Economic History
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Associated documentation
Version 2.0
2011-05-31
https://doi.org/10.5878/001101
Version 1.0
2008-04-22
https://doi.org/10.5878/001106
Dataset 1
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Time period(s) investigated
1925 — 1925
Variables
70
Number of individuals/objects
6845
Version 2.0
2011-05-31
https://doi.org/10.5878/001103
Version 1.0
2008-04-22
https://doi.org/10.5878/001102
Dataset 2
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Variables
78
Number of individuals/objects
7741
Version 2.0
2011-05-30
https://doi.org/10.5878/001105
Version 1.0
2008-04-22
https://doi.org/10.5878/001104
Dataset 3
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Variables
66
Number of individuals/objects
7921
Version 2.0
2011-05-31
https://doi.org/10.5878/001107
Version 1.0
2008-04-22
https://doi.org/10.5878/000875
Dataset 4
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Data format / data structure
Numeric
Variables
57
Number of individuals/objects
9934