Summary information
Study title
Occupation and Family in the Somerset Coalfield and St Helens, 1851
Creator
Not availableStudy number / PID
1978 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-1978-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
To investigate how economic changes in two relatively discrete mining districts of Somerset and Lancashire may have influenced the kind of demographic changes occurring in them during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Main Topics:
Variables
Age, birthplace, family size, family structure, child-woman ratios, occupation, family workforce, lodgers.
Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
Not availableCountry
England
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Families/households
Subnational
Census data
Households
Universe
Households in the Somerset coalfield and St. Helens, Lancashire as recorded in Census Enumerators' books in 1851
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1984
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
- Beadle, S. (1983) Economic changes and the population of coalfields in the early nineteenth century with specific reference to the Somerset and St. Helens coalfields [dissertation]:University of Liverpool.