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Summary information

Study title

Data for 85 British Towns, 1966; Socio-Economic File

Creator

Carling, A., University of Manchester, Department of Sociology

Study number / PID

296 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-296-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To collect employment, household and voting data for 85 British Towns.
Main Topics:

Variables
Population in 1966, population growth 1961 - 1966. Per cent of total economically active and retired men in social classes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Per cent of total economically active and retired men who were in various different types of employment. Per cent of total labour force in manufacturing, transport and services. Per cent of workers commuting in and per cent of residents commuting out. Number of households with more than 2 cars, number of households rented from council/with amenities/overcrowded. Amount of local authority/private building in 1966. Per cent of constituency population who were Irish, young voters, old voters, working women, unemployed, who had migrated during the last 5 years.

Topics

ElectionsCensuses

Keywords

CENSUS DATACENSUS RECORDSCOMMUTINGDEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICSELECTORSEMPLOYMENTHOUSING CONSTRUCTIONHOUSING FACILITIESIMMIGRANTSLABOUR FORCEMOTOR VEHICLESOVERPOPULATION
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Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

Great Britain

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Administrative units (geographical/political)
National
Census data
Demographic data

Universe

Urban areas, over 50,000 population in 1966, for which Local Authority and Constitutency boundaries could be brought into correspondence. Only constituencies (or groups of constituencies where aggregation took place) with unchanged external boundaries for 1959 through to 1966

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Not available

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.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

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