Incomes in Göteborg 1925-1958
type: Dataset
description: The aim of this study is to throw light on why inequality in the distribution of income in Sweden fell from the mid-1920s to the second part of the 1950s. For this reason the project decided to collect income information referring to different years from a sample of households for one Swedish city. A database was created by coding tax records and other documents for the city of Göteborg, the second largest city in Sweden. The determination of which years to investigate was critical. For analysing changes over time it was thought as essential to have roughly equal numbers of years between years studied. Further, it was thought advisable to avoid years with too much macroeconomic turmoil as well as the years of the two World Wars. Balancing the resources for the data collection between the size of a sub sample and the number of subsamples, it was decided to assemble data for four years. The years 1925, 1936, 1947 and 1958 was chosen to investigate. It should be pointed out that the year 1947 was preferred to the following years as large social insurance reforms leading to increases in pension benefits and the introduction of child allowances were put in effect in 1948. Household is defined from registers kept in the archives (Mantalslängder). A household is defined as persons with the same surname living in the same apartment or single-family house. This means that there can be people belonging to more than two generations in the same household; siblings living together can make up a household as well. Foster children are included as long as they are registred at the same address. Adult children are considered to be living in the household of their parents as long as they are registred at the same address. In almost all cases, servants and tenants not belonging to the household are treated as separate households.
citation: CreativeWork
  name: Gustafsson,B. & Johansson, M. (2003). Steps toward equality: How and why income inequality in urban Sweden changed during the period 1925–1958. European Review of Economic History, Volume 7, Issue 2, August 2003, Pages 191–211. DOI: 10.1017/S1361491603000078
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creator: Björn Gustafsson
creator: Mats Johansson
  type: Person
  affiliation: Institute for Future Studies
  family name: Johansson
  given name: Mats
date modified: 2025-03-05
date published: 2025-03-05
funding: Grant
  funder: Swedish Council for Social Research
language: Swedish
is part of: https://doi.org/10.5878/000382
keywords: Income, property and investment/saving
keywords: HISTORY
keywords: Social Sciences
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  term code: 5
keywords: Economic History
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publisher: University of Gothenburg
spatial coverage: Göteborg Municipality
temporal coverage: 1925/1958
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Björn Gustafsson
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affiliation: University of Gothenburg
family name: Gustafsson
given name: Björn

University of Gothenburg
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department: Department of Social Work

Institute for Future Studies
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Swedish
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Income, property and investment/saving
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description: Data on the accumulation of personal assets, including income, property, investments and savings.
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HISTORY
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description: Use note: In addition to this broader topic, use another topic for historical data. Example: for data on the working environments of family doctors in the 1960s, use HISTORY and 'Working conditions' plus 'Health care services and policies'. Use the HISTORY topic on its own only if a more specific topic cannot be found in this vocabulary.
term code: History

TAXATION
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INCOME
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SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
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OCCUPATIONAL STATUS
type: DefinedTerm
description: EMPLOYMENT RANK, POSITION OR STATUS ACHIEVED BY AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP

HOUSING CONDITIONS
type: DefinedTerm
description: PHYSICAL CONDITION OF HOUSING

CHIEF INCOME EARNERS
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description: PERSON IN THE HOUSEHOLD WITH THE LARGEST INCOME, WHETHER FROM THEIR EMPLOYMENT, PENSION, STATE BENEFITS, INVESTMENTS OR ANY OTHER SOURCE

Göteborg Municipality
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