Soziale Ungleichheit im Spiegel des Konsums. Eine clusteranalytische Untersuchung zum differentiellen Konsum im Kaiserreich

Fischer Hendrik
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Fischer Hendrik: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Raumfahrt-Agentur, Bonn, Deutschland

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2010, vol. 51, issue 1, 229-257

Abstract: The paper analyses consumer behaviour in different social classes in late 19th century Germany. Using a complete new database with 3,994 household budgets, it presents a new quantitative approach to answer the question how social stratification is reflected in different types of consumption. Unlike most previous attempts, the data set was not pre-classified first by some other attributes of social structure (such as occupation of the head of the household, income, etc.). Instead, the entire data set is classified and grouped by a cluster analysis of the households′ expenditure structures only. This approach has not been used for such a wide spectrum of society covering households of East-Prussian rural workers as well as the household of a Westphalian Count. Thus, the paper covers several new findings, e. g. a much wider variety of different consumption styles within working class households as traditionally assumed.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1524/jbwg.2010.0012

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