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City Data (67 Large Cities in the Federal Republic of Germany)

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA2331 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2331
Abstract: Social and economic figures for 67 large West German cities. The data aggregated at city level have been collected for most topics over several years, but not necessarily over the entire reference time period. Topics: 1. Situation of the city: surface area of the city; fringe location in the Federal Republic. 2. Residential population: total residential population; German and foreign residential population. 3. Population movement:live births; deaths; influx; departures; birth rate; death rate; population shifts; divorce rate; migration rate; illegitimate births. 4. Education figures: s ... more

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 1969 - 1991
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE), FRG incl West Berlin
Universe: Aggregate data for 67 large cities that had more than 100000 residents on 31.Dec.1979. Data basis: statistics yearbooks of German municipalities of various years, BURDA: Bunte City Test, GFK data on purchasing power in the large cities of the Federal Republic, prices of property and one´s own home in selected large cities in the publication of ... more
Number of Units: 67
Mode of Data Collection: Aggregate data from year books and statistical publications and special analyses
Data Collector: Forschungsstelle Vergleichende Sozialforschung, Universitaet Hamburg; Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung, Universitaet Koeln
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 7311
Notes: The data set was revised in the time interval from 1983 to 1989 in the Forschungsstelle Vergleichende Stadtforschung {research center for comparative city research} in Hamburg. After 1992 this work was continued by the Zentralarchiv.

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Friedrichs, Jürgen - Forschungsinstitut für Soziologie, Universität zu Köln
Publication year: 1993
DOI: 10.4232/1.2331
Study number: ZA2331
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2331
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Reference publications

Publications: Friedrichs, Jürgen: Kriminalität und sozio-ökonomische Struktur von Großstädten. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 1985, 14, S. 50-63.
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Friedrichs, Jürgen (1993). City Data (67 Large Cities in the Federal Republic of Germany). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA2331 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.2331.

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