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The data contains inequality measures at the municipality-level for 1892 and 1871, as estimated in the PhD thesis "Institutions, Inequality and Societal Transformations" by Sara Moricz. The data also contains the source publications: 1) tabel 1 from “Bidrag till Sverige official statistik R) Valstatistik. XI. Statistiska Centralbyråns underdåniga berättelse rörande kommunala rösträtten år 1892” (biSOS R 1892) 2) tabel 1 from “Bidrag till Sverige official statistik R) Valstatistik. II. Statistiska Centralbyråns underdåniga berättelse rörande kommunala rösträtten år 1871” (biSOS R 1871) --------------------------------------------- moricz_inequality_agriculture.csv --------------------------------------------- A UTF-8 encoded .csv-file. Each row is a municipality of the agricultural sample (2222 in total). Each column is a variable. R71muncipality_id: a unique identifier for the municipalities in the R1871 publication (the municipality name can be obtained from the source data) R92muncipality_id: a unique identifier for the municipalities in the R1892 publication (the municipality name can be obtained from the source data) agriTop1_1871: an ordinal measure (ranking) of the top 1 income share in the agricultural sector for 1871 agriTop1_1892: an ordinal measure (ranking) of the top 1 income share in the agricultural sector for 1892 highestFarm_1871: a cardinal measure of the top 1 person share in the agricultural sector for 1871 highestFarm_1871: a cardinal measure of the top 1 person share in the agricultural sector for 1892 --------------------------------------------- moricz_inequality_industry.csv --------------------------------------------- A UTF-8 encoded .csv-file. Each row is a municipality of the industrial sample (1328 in total). Each column is a variable. R71muncipality_id: see above description R92muncipality_id: see above description indTop1_1871: an ordinal measure (ranking) of the top 1 income share in the industrial sector for...