Poverty in the German Empire 1885 – selected regions.
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA8592 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12753
Abstract: The Imperial Statistical Office of the German Empire carried out an investigation on poverty and collected for 1885 detailed data on the extent of municipal care for poor people. Due to this data collection the number of persons, the extent of the assistance provided, and the reasons for the social need can be specified exactly.
The sources of this data are the official statistical publication of the German Empire, the statistical yearbook. The author suggests to make further investigations on the basis of this data collection using archival sources of German municipalities. In doing so, regi ... more Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 1885
Geographic coverage: German Reich (1871-1945) (DXDE), German Reich
Number of Units: 125 Fälle
Analysis System(s): Excel
Number of Variables: 42 Variablen
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Schallmann, Jürgen -
Publication year: 2017
DOI: 10.4232/1.12753
Study number: ZA8592
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, 2017-03-31, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12753
Version history: ... more Reference publications
Publications: Schallmann, Ürgen: Arme und Armut in Göttingen 1860–1914 (Studien zur Geschichte der Stadt Göttingen, Band 25), Göttingen 2014.
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