Data and the American Dream

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Matthew Holian, San Jose State University

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Name File Type Size Last Modified
ACS_master.RData application/x-rlang-transport 1.1 GB 03/23/2021 07:32:AM
Y2K.RData application/x-rlang-transport 159.2 MB 03/23/2021 05:44:AM
readme.odt application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text 2.9 KB 11/11/2020 06:25:PM
readme.pdf application/pdf 31.7 KB 03/23/2021 05:43:AM
script01_ch1_puma_stats_20201111.R text/x-r-syntax 174 KB 03/23/2021 05:43:AM
script02_ch1_lawyer_earnings_20200617.R text/x-r-syntax 19.7 KB 11/12/2020 08:23:AM
script03_ch1_bedrooms_20200609.R text/x-r-syntax 6.4 KB 08/13/2020 09:11:PM
script04_ch1_questions_20200610.R text/x-r-syntax 20.7 KB 08/13/2020 09:18:PM
script05_ch2_CK_verification_20200514.R text/x-r-syntax 7.6 KB 08/13/2020 09:18:PM
script06_ch2_CK_reproduction_20200802.R text/x-r-syntax 5.7 KB 08/13/2020 09:21:PM

Project Citation: 

Holian, Matthew. Data and the American Dream. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-03-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E135661V1

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These are the data and code files used in Data and the American Dream: Contemporary Social Controversies and the American Community Survey, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

The publisher's webpage is at:


The author's companion webpage for the book is at:


Please cite the data as: Steven Ruggles, Sarah Flood, Ronald Goeken, Josiah Grover, Erin Meyer, Jose Pacas and Matthew Sobek. IPUMS USA: Version 10.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2020. https://doi.org/10.18128/D010.V10.0





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