COMPARATIVE PROJECT ON CLASS STRUCTURE AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS: CORE AND
COUNTRY-SPECIFIC FILES 1980-1987
Principal Investigator(s): Wright, E.O., et al.
Country: United States, England, Norway, Canada, Finland, Australia,
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Japan
Sample: USA: Adults 18 years and older either working, not working but
wanting to work, or housewives with working
spouses / Sweden: Adults aged 18-65 in the work force / Norway: People aged
16-66 either employed, unemployed or housewives / Canada: Noninstitutionalized,
non-disabled adult population aged 18 or older either employed, unemployed,
or housewives / Finland: Adult population aged 18-65 either employed, unemployed,
or housewives / England: People aged 16-64 who were not in full-time education
/ Australia: Employed adults aged 18 or older / West Germany: Adults aged 18-72
in the labor force as either employed or unemployed. Denmark: People aged 15
years or older / Japan: Unknown.
Keywords: Intergenerational-Mobility,
Class-Identification, Justice,
Income-Attainment.
Dimensions: Core and Equivalent Variables - All Countries: N=16714 NV=859
/ Sweden Specific Variables: N=1145 NV=24 / Norway Specific Variables: N=2532
NV=208 / Canada Specific VAriables: N=2577 NV=400 / Britain Specific Variables:
N=1770 NV=758 / Australia Specific Variables: N=1195 NV=396 / West Germany Specific
Variables: N=1834 NV=519 / Japan Specific Variables: N=823 NV=281 / Denmark
Specific Variables: N=2080 NV=420.
Producer/distributor: Ann Arbor, MI.: Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research [distributor].
Originating Archive: ICPSR-9323.
Restrictions: This file should be acquired from the ICPSR.
Files: (a) wrightaus.i9323cdb (1968300 bytes) / (b) wrighaus.i9323dat
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/ (u) wrighxna.i9323dat (32291448 bytes).
Recode and label files:
Canada: Canxx_edu.htm
(CAN82W)
England: Engxx_edu.htm
(ENG84W)
Germany: Gerxx_edu.htm
(GER85W)
Norway: Norxx_edu.htm
(NOR82W)
Documentation: (a) codebook (English, 999 pages) (b) user's guide (English,
4 volumes) (c) British country specific file
(d) Canadian specific variables.
08/30/00