Comparative Cities Teaching Package / R. Burr Litchfield, Howard P. Chudacoff.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Litchfield, R. Burr, 1936-

Chudacoff, Howard P.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 7698.

ICPSR ; 7698

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--History.

Cities and towns.

History.

Social history--19th century.

Social history.

Cities and towns--Study and teaching.

United States.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Second ICPSR Release.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

Comparative Cities is a teaching package designed to introduce students to analysis of manuscript schedules of the nineteenth century census for social, urban, family, and demographic history. The files are designed for use with SPSS. It was initially developed at Brown University with assistance of a project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The file is organized to illustrate contrasts among cities at different stages of industrialization and the demographic transition in Europe and America: Pisa, Italy (1841), Amiens, France (1851), Stockport, England (1841 and 1851), and Providence, R.I. (1850, 1865, and 1880). The rural district around Pisa and part of Providence County are also included. There are approximately 1400 cases with information for individuals in each of eleven subfiles. These are random samples from the original 1:10 house samples for the four places made to permit flexible and economical student use. Summaries imbedded in the file permit analysis at the individual, household, or nuclear unit level. There are 142 variables for each individual. The package also contains a coursebook with explanation of each variable, a dictionary with occupational titles that appear in the censuses, course syllabus, and other instructions for use. The files are being used in the separate ongoing research of the two principal investigators and should be used for instructional purposes only. This teaching package can be supplied as two card-image data files, two files of SPSS instruction cards, and associated printed documentation. The package has also been updated with several files designed to be used with microcomputers. Included in the updated materials are four text files (Contents of Tape, Coursebook, Explanatory Materials, and Dictionary of Occupational Titles and Codes), a file of SPSSx data definition statements fo... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07698

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.