Summary information
Study title
The Standard of Living of the Californian Gold-Diggers
Creator
Finzsch, Norbert (Deutsches Historisches Institut, Washington D.C., USA )
Study number / PID
ZA8033, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.8033 (DOI)
Data access
Information not available
Series
Not available
Abstract
Determination of the weekly wholesale price of 35 consumer goods and
formation of a basket of goods; evaluation in view of the standard of
living of gold-diggers in the mine cities of California and the
tendency to take up wage working conditions.
Topics: Date of price information, source information, city, prices
of approx. 35 consumer goods.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
1849 - 1860
Country
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Not availableUniverse
Not availableSampling procedure
Random selection
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Sources: Price lists in newspapers.
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
1990
Terms of data access
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.
Related publications
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