• Aims

  • To create linked panels of census data in a comparable manner in three different countries
  • To measure social mobility over two generations in three countries, and compare levels and changes in social mobility

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• Outputs and outcomes

  • Integrated set of programmes for creating linked data panels between pairs of censuses
  • Representative samples of men linked between censuses at 30 year intervals, made available as public use datasets

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• Project timeline

  Duration: Twenty four months
  Project start date: 1 February 2012
  Project completion date: 31 January 2014

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• Project history

  This project is based on one of the largest microdata collections in existence, the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP). The NAPP database includes complete enumerations of the populations of Britain, Canada, the United States, and several other countries between 1850 and 1911.

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Information

This project investigates levels of social mobility in Canada, Great Britain and the United States from 1850 to 1911.
• It uses census records from the 1850s, 1880s, and 1910s to create two panels of men observed in childhood living with their father, and then thirty years later in adulthood.
• We measure social mobility by comparing fathers’ and sons’ occupations at similar points in their lives.