Survey of Stratification and Migration Dynamics in Russia, 1985-2001

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Label

Survey of Stratification and Migration Dynamics in Russia, 1985-2001

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Gerber, Theodore P

Author

• Gerber, Theodore P

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• family structure
• family work relationship
• fertility
• income
• job history
• labor migration
• consumption
• political attitudes
• privatization
• survey
• wages and salaries
• work
• occupational mobility
• economic indicators
• employment
• family relationships

Genre

• survey

Summary

The purpose of the study was to collect survey data on the employment/work histories, family structure histories, and residential mobility histories of Russian adults from January 1985 through the end of the survey. The work histories include the following information about each job held during that time period: occupation, how the job was found, employer type, industry, and size. In addition, the survey gathered information on current residence, occupation, other job characteristics, earnings, sources of household income, household ownership of consumer goods, basic demographic indicators, and attitude measures. The data were designed to be used for multivariate analysis of the factors influencing changes in employment status, job mobility of various types, changes in marital status, fertility, and residential mobility in Russia during the period of 1985-2001. Since the period covered by the histories spans the final seven years of the Soviet era and the first decade of the post-Soviet era, the data are uniquely suited for assessing whether the transition from Soviet-style socialism has affected stratification, family formation, and migration processes. Moreover, because the data include work/employment, family structure, and migration histories, the dataset is uniquely suited for dynamic analyses of the inter-relationships among states and events in these three domains. Finally, because the data contain information on each respondent's oblast (region) of residence at all points in time from 1985-2001, data on regional characteristics can be merged with files created from the survey data, in order to measure the impact of regional characteristics on individual-level events. The data can be used to investigate job and employment transitions, union formation and dissolution, fertility, departures of children, internal migration, determinants of earnings, wage arrears, consumption, and other topics