a-social-construct:speaking of brooklyn is 99% docks, here’s part of a thing seberu and I are workin
a-social-construct:speaking of brooklyn is 99% docks, here’s part of a thing seberu and I are working on with the 1940 census. I pulled about ten thousand lines of Brooklyn census data for Steve and Bucky’s probable neighborhoods, and these are the 30 most often listed jobs for white men 16-30, sorted by their popularity and colored by income. (This is a bigger interactive version that you can sort and play with yourself). Steve’s semi-canonically a paperboy 1939-1943, but Bucky could have had a lot of other jobs besides hauling crates on the docks or whatever. Longshoremen are one of the oldest modern unions, so census takers were pretty careful about distinguishing them from other kinds of manual laborers and imho it’s pretty unlikely Bucky would have worked on the docks. Manual labor or heavy machine operator, maybe, but he’s at least as likely to have been a file clerk, accountant or cashier of some kind (the clerk category). And he’s more likely to have been a teacher, insurance agent or lawyer than a mechanic.At this point I’m just noodling around with things I’m interested in like relationship between education level and job, income vs rent, living at home vs not, etc, but are there other things people are interested in?And let me know if you’re interested in doing some hella boring copy and paste work, there’s some stuff like language, parents’ place of birth, roommates and female-headed households that I don’t have enough data for but no time to scrape more. (There are some big downloadable datasets for this kind of thing, but they’re county level and not neighborhood level and don’t list individuals). Out of ten thousand people, I only have 1500 men 16-30, six men who identified as roommates, and ten widowed or single nurses :( -- source link
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