Incomes in Göteborg 1925
SND-ID: snd0783-1. Version: 1.0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/001106
Citation
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Björn Gustafsson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Work
Mats Johansson - Institute for Future Studies
Research principal
University of Gothenburg - Department of Social Work
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
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 benefits and the introduction of child allowances were put in effect in 1948.
Household is defined from registers kept in the archives (Mantalslängder). A household is defined as persons with the same surname living in the same apartment or single-family house. This means that there can be people belonging to more than two generations in the same household; siblings living together can make up a household as well. Foster children are included as long as they are registred at the same address. Adult children are considered to be living in the household of their parents as long as they are registred at the same address. In almost all cases, servants and tenants not belonging to the household are treated as separate households.
Purpose:
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 Show less..
Data contains personal data
No
Language
Unit of analysis
Population
Households in Göteborg
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
1925 – 1925
Variables
70
Number of individuals/objects
6845
Data format / data structure
Responsible department/unit
Department of Social Work
Research area
History (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Economic history (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Income, property and investment/saving (CESSDA Topic Classification)