Summary information
Study title
British and Irish Emigrants to the U.S.A. in 1841
Creator
Tiratsoo, N., London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics
Erickson, C. J., University of Cambridge, Faculty of History
Study number / PID
2179 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-2179-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
To provide quantitative estimates of the principal demographic and social characteristics of emigrants to the USA from the UK, and to test the usefulness of the passenger lists of American ports for this purpose.
Main Topics:
Variables
Age, sex, occupation, nationality, type and size of migrating household; type of vessel, class of accomodation, data and port of arrival and departure, destination and place of last residence (where available).
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
01/01/1984
Country
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Individuals
Families/households
Cross-national
Subnational
Demographic data
Emigrants
Immigrants
Universe
Emigrants from the British Isles entering the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and New Orleans in 1841
Sampling procedure
Simple random sample
one-in-five of ships entering five US ports
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1987
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
- Erickson, C. (1986) 'The uses of passenger lists for the study of British and Irish emigration'