Change over time

Studied from its original page

Identified units under a middle-half band

Percent of population receiving relief, by States, from the General Relief Program, F.E.R.A. (Brinton's caption)

Made by
Works Progress Administration, Division of Social Research
Year
1937
Field
Social science and psychology
Kind
Data display
Room
Change over time

Not shown here: its rights are not cleared

See the original page — Brinton 1939, p. 317

Fails both tests: 1939 is after 1930 (A) and the page is Brinton's book, tied to Brinton who died in 1957 (B would run to 2027). The original WPA report of 1937 is a US federal work published before 1955, so a scan of that report itself would pass both tests.

The data it needs

  • unit identity · categorical · numbered
  • period column · temporal · half-year
  • value height · quantitative · percent
  • group key order · categorical · region

Built in 5 steps, as its maker described

original chart; not opened

Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

16 other forms share this skeleton

Source

WPA Division of Social Research 1937, Trends in Relief Expenditures

Attribution checked against the source

Searches, not citations

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