Savings and Dissaving by 12,817 American Households, 1917-1919 / Martha L. Olney.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 6276.

ICPSR ; 6276

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income--United States--Statistics.

Income.

Consumer credit.

Cost and standard of living.

United States.

Cost and standard of living--United States--Statistics.

Consumer credit--United States.

Genre:

Statistics.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This data collection contains information on annual savings and dissavings by households in the United States during 1917-1919, as well as data on the use of merchant or installment credit. Savings variables include purchases of Liberty Bonds, municipal bonds, War Savings Stamps, and Postal Savings Stamps, accumulations of cash in checking accounts, loan associations, savings accounts, and Christmas clubs, contributions to pension funds, payments on bills for tuition, fuel, medical care, groceries, and back taxes, investments in real estate and livestock, and purchases of stocks in various types of companies. Dissaving variables include amounts owed for tuition, clothes, medical care, car accessories, jewelry, rent, taxes, union dues, books, and insurance premiums, withdrawals from savings, amounts borrowed from employers, banks, loan associations, and friends, and sales of land, homes, furnishings, buggies, jewelry, and art work.

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Notes:

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

Start: 1917; and end: 1919.

OCLC:

61156844

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.