Comparative Cities Teaching Package

Comparative Cities is a teaching package designed to introduce students to analysis of manuscript schedules of the nineteenth century census for social, urban, family, and demographic history. The files are designed for use with SPSS. It was initially developed at Brown University with assistance of a project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The file is organized to illustrate contrasts among cities at different stages of industrialization and the demographic transition in Europe and America: Pisa, Italy (1841), Amiens, France (1851), Stockport, England (1841 and 1851), and Providence, R.I. (1850, 1865, and 1880). The rural district around Pisa and part of Providence County are also included. There are approximately 1400 cases with information for individuals in each of eleven subfiles. These are random samples from the original 1:10 house samples for the four places made to permit flexible and economical student use. Summaries imbedded in the file permit analysis at the individual, household, or nuclear unit level. There are 142 variables for each individual. The package also contains a coursebook with explanation of each variable, a dictionary with occupational titles that appear in the censuses, course syllabus, and other instructions for use. The files are being used in the separate ongoing research of the two principal investigators and should be used for instructional purposes only. This teaching package can be supplied as two card-image data files, two files of SPSS instruction cards, and associated printed documentation. The package has also been updated with several files designed to be used with microcomputers. Included in the updated materials are four text files (Contents of Tape, Coursebook, Explanatory Materials, and Dictionary of Occupational Titles and Codes), a file of SPSSx data definition statements for use with PC-SPSSx, and a file of data definition statements for use with the Consortium's ABC statistical analysis package. Nine separate sub-files, each derived from the original census data and designed for analysis on micro-computers which are equipped with PC-SPSSx or ABC, are also provided. Finally, the package includes two mainframe SPSSx "Export" files which contain all of the data collected for each city. While these latter files duplicate the SPSS files contained in the earlier Comparative Cities package, they have been modified for use with SPSSx. The original Comparative Cities Teaching Package files can still be supplied as well. These files are oriented towards use of SPSS Version 9 on mainframe computers.

《比较城市》（Comparative Cities）是一款教学套件，旨在向学生介绍19世纪人口普查手稿表的分析方法，服务于社会史、城市史、家庭史与人口史研究。所有文件均适配SPSS软件。本套件最初由布朗大学开发，获得美国国家人文基金会（National Endowment for the Humanities）项目资助。套件文件的设计初衷是展示欧美不同工业化阶段与人口转型阶段的城市间差异，涉及的研究区域包括：意大利比萨（1841年）、法国亚眠（1851年）、英国斯托克波特（1841年与1851年）以及美国罗德岛州普罗维登斯（1850年、1865年与1880年），同时纳入了比萨周边乡村区域与普罗维登斯县的部分区域数据。11个子文件中各包含约1400条个体信息记录，这些数据均源自四个研究区域原始1:10房屋抽样样本的随机子集，以满足学生灵活且经济的使用需求。文件内嵌的汇总数据支持开展个体、家庭或核心家庭单元层面的分析，每位个体对应142个变量字段。本套件还包含针对各变量的说明手册、普查职业名称词典、课程大纲及其他使用指南。该套件文件目前正由两位首席研究员分别开展独立的持续研究，且仅可用于教学用途。该教学套件可提供两种形式：两套卡片式数据文件、两套SPSS操作说明卡片文件，以及配套的印刷版文档。本套件还针对微型计算机更新了配套文件，更新后的材料包含四个文本文件（磁带目录、课程手册、说明材料与职业名称及代码词典）、适配PC-SPSSx的SPSSx数据定义语句文件，以及适配本联盟ABC统计分析套件的数据定义语句文件。同时提供9个独立子文件，均源自原始普查数据，适配搭载PC-SPSSx或ABC软件的微型计算机开展分析。最后，本套件包含两份大型机SPSSx "导出" 文件，涵盖所有城市的全部采集数据。尽管这两份文件与早期《比较城市》套件中的SPSS文件内容一致，但已针对SPSSx软件进行了适配修改。用户也可获取原版《比较城市》教学套件文件，该版本适配大型机上的SPSS 9版本。