Summary information
Study title
Name, Residence, Vote and Occupation for the 1852 and 1857 Sheffield General Elections
Creator
Arthur, C., University of East London
White, A., University of East London, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Study number / PID
4241 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-4241-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The research project set out in 1985 to investigate the claim made by Martin J. Wiener in <i>English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit: 1850-1980</i> (Cambridge University Press, 1982) that Tory political support was inimical to the growth of industrial capitalism. An ancillary aim of the project was to explore the political allegiance of the membership of the Sheffield Club. In order to achieve both of these aims information from the poll books for the 1852 and 1857 Sheffield elections were entered into a database and then linked to occupational data from local commercial directories.
Main Topics:
The material consists of a transcription of the contents of the parliamentary poll books for Sheffield for the general elections of 1852 and 1857.
Each record consists of: the voter's name; the ward containing the qualifying property; the address of the qualifying property; the voter's vote; an occupational description of the voter; and an occupational coding.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/1985 - 01/01/2000
Country
England
Time dimension
Repeated cross-sectional study
Analysis unit
Individuals
Subnational
Universe
Voters in Sheffield in the general elections of 1852 and 1857.
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Text
Numeric
Data collection mode
Transcription of existing materials
The voting data is a complete transcription of the poll books except that where an individual had multiple voting rig hts only the instance where the franchise was exercised (or where no franchise was exercised, a random choice of loca tion) is recorded.
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2001
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
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