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U.S. City Financial Statistics, 1924 - 1938

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Pawel Janas, Caltech

Version:  View help for Version V1

Version Title:  View help for Version Title July 2024 Version

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city_fin_24_38_icpsr.dta application/x-stata-dta 6.6 MB 07/01/2024 11:54:AM
city_fin_24_38_icpsr.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 4.7 MB 07/01/2024 11:56:AM
codebook.docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document 32.1 KB 07/01/2024 12:00:PM

Project Citation: 

Janas, Pawel. U.S. City Financial Statistics, 1924 - 1938. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E207244V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This project contains a city-level panel dataset of city revenue, expenses, and debt between the years 1924 and 1938, annually, derived from state archival records and the U.S. Census Bureau. All variables have been aggregated to the smallest comparable category – that is, if one state only reports “total taxes” while another splits taxes into different types, total taxes from the first and the sum from the second are reported here. Please get in touch with the principal investigator if you would like the disaggregated data (especially for Massachusetts and New York). Sample sizes vary from 519 to 819 cities per year.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms city financials; financial statistics of cities
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage U.S. cities
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1/1/1924 – 1/1/1938


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