Summary information
Study title
Scottish Poor Law Commission Statistics, 1844
Creator
Levitt, I., Plymouth Polytechnic, Department of Social Administration
Study number / PID
1132 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-1132-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
This study uses statistics from the <i>Report of the Scottish Poor Law Commissioners</i> (1844) to investigate and map the condition of the Scottish working class in 1843 on a parish by parish basis. The stated aim of the Scottish Poor Law Commissioners investigation in 1843 was <i>To make a diligent and full inquiry into the practical operation of laws which provide for the relief of the poor in Scotland</i> (from the opening remarks of the Commissioners, volume 20), which was carried out in 1843.
Main Topics:
Poor relief, parishes, food, prices, wages, occupations, rents, housing, rural facilities, language and emigration.
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
Scotland
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Administrative units (geographical/political)
National
Poor
Universe
People in all Scottish parishes, 1844, listed under the Poor Laws.
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1977
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Related publications
Not available