ICPSR - 7550 - Boston Mobility Study, 1880

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Boston Mobility Study, 1880
(Principal Investigator, Thernstrom, Stephen. )

Summary

This study was conducted to examine patterns of social mobility in Boston, Massachusetts. It contains individual-level demographic information such as amount of property, occupation, location of residence, and income at ten year intervals. It also contains a derived measure of intergenerational prestige mobility.

Citation

Thernstrom, Stephen. BOSTON MOBILITY STUDY, 1880 [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1986.

Codebook

The codebook for this study is located on the 5th floor of the Main Library with the call number of HN80 .B7T43767 1986. There is an electronic version in text format which can be downloaded.

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Filename (Size in KB)	LRECL Logical RECord Length	Dataset Details
da7550 (603K)	80	Data file for study 7550
odata.s7550 (380K)	101	Data file for study 7550
dm7550 (24K)	80	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file
sp7550.card (11K)	80	SPSS data definitions for study 7550
sp7550.lrecl (11K)	80	SPSS data definitions for study 7550

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