Overview: Costs of living - Statistical data from 1817 to 1913.
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA8585 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12241
Abstract: In his survey about wage development in Germany from 1871 to 1945 Gerhard Bry (1960) composes an overview about different estimations for index series for costs of living for the period from 1871 to 1913. The index series differ in their regional ties (German Empire, Silesia, Bavaria, Ruhr area, Berlin, Essen, Braunschweig, Lübeck, Mannheim, Stuttgart and Prussia) and also in the composition of the different components (food and rent, only food, costs of living).
The indices are in general quite similar to each other, as Bry already noticed. To what extent differences in the details are due t ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 1871 - 1913
Geographic coverage: German Reich (1871-1945) (DXDE) |
Number of Units: 42 Zeitpunkte
Analysis System(s): Excel
Number of Variables: 13 Zeitreihen
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Bry, Gerhard -
Publication year: 2015
DOI: 10.4232/1.12241
Study number: ZA8585
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, 2015-05-11, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12241
Version history: ... more Reference publications
Publications: Bry, G., 1960: Wages in Germany 1871 – 1945. Princeton: University Press, Appendix, Tabelle A-11.
Study group: GESIS Community Data |
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