U.S. City School Systems, 1922–1940

Revenue, expenditure, debt and enrollment of public city school systems.

UnitCity-year

Years1922–1940

FrequencyBiennial survey

VariablesFinance & enrollment

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Overview

A city-level panel of financial and enrollment variables for public city school systems, 1922–1940.

School districts are aggregated to the city level. The source survey also covers state school systems, higher education and private schools; this dataset covers city school systems only.

Funding: Economic History Association.

Sources

Biennial Survey of Education, statistics of city school systems.

Files

File	Type	Size
`survey_of_education_1922_1940_icpsr.dta`	Stata	980.3 KB
`survey_of_education_1922_1940_icpsr.xlsx`	Excel	965.9 KB
`codebook.docx`	Codebook	23.8 KB

All files are in the openICPSR project, version V2.

Variables

Variable names, labels and units are documented in codebook.docx, distributed with the data on openICPSR.

Research

Janas, P. (2026). “Crises and Educational Attainment.” Journal of Economic History, 86(2), 501–536. Journal

Citation

Please cite the paper(s) listed above, if any, and the openICPSR project:

openICPSR citation

Janas, Pawel. U.S. City School Systems, 1922 - 1940. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E207221V2

BibTeX — dataset

@misc{janas_city_schools,
  author    = {Janas, Pawel},
  title     = {{U.S.} City School Systems, 1922--1940},
  publisher = {Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]},
  address   = {Ann Arbor, MI},
  year      = {2024},
  version   = {V2},
  doi       = {10.3886/E207221V2},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.3886/E207221V2}
}

BibTeX — paper

@article{janas2026a,
  author  = {Janas, P.},
  title   = {Crises and Educational Attainment},
  journal = {Journal of Economic History},
  volume  = {86},
  number  = {2},
  pages   = {501--536},
  year    = {2026}
}

Version history

Version	Released	DOI
V2 (current)	2024-07-23	10.3886/E207221V2