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Summary information

Study title

U.K. County Data, 1851-1966

Creator

Hechter, M., University of Washington, Department of Sociology

Study number / PID

430 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-430-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


To collect social, demographic, electoral and linguistic data for each of 118 British and Irish counties in the period 1851 - 1966, in order to study national development in the UK and Ireland.
Main Topics:

Variables
County. Population: growth, proportion aged 65 and over, sex ratio, density, marriage rate, per capita income, proportion in agriculture/manufacturing/middle class/civil service, proportion who were female domestics. Proportion urban, city size, index of ethnic diversity*, vote residual and income residual. Proportion voting Conservative, Labour, Liberal, Nationalist Party. Proportion Celtic speakers. Religiosity, literacy. Proportion of Church of England, non-conformists, Roman Catholics. Proportion English born, Welsh born, Scottish, Irish and French. Voting turnout, birth rate, infant mortality rate.
*See Hechter (AJS 79 2 Sept 1973).

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Topics

CensusesSocial conditions and indicatorsLanguage and linguisticsHistoryPolitical behaviour and attitudes

Keywords

AGEAGRICULTURAL WORKERSBIRTH RATEBRITISH POLITICAL PARTIESCELTIC LANGUAGESCENSUS DATACENSUS RECORDSCIVIL SERVANTSDEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICSELECTION DATAELECTORAL RECORDSELECTORS
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1968 - 01/01/1969

Country

Ireland, United Kingdom

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Election and Census data
Cross-national
National
Demographic data
Electoral data
Linguistic data

Universe

British and Irish counties in the period 1851 to 1966

Sampling procedure

No information recorded

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1976

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

  • Hechter, M. (1974) 'The political economy of ethnic change', American Journal of Sociology, 1151-1178
  • Hechter, M. (1972) 'Industrialization and national development in the British Isles', The Journal of Development Studies, 155-182
  • Hechter, M. (1971) 'Towards a theory of ethnic change', Politics and Society, 21-45
  • Kaufmann, E. (2006) 'The dynamics of Orangeism in Scotland: the social sources of political influence in a mass-member organization, 1860-2001', Social Science History, 263-292
  • Hechter, M. (1975) Internal colonialism: the Celtic fringe in British national development 1536 - 1966, London | Berkely, USA: Routledge & Kegan Paul | University of Calofornia Press.
  • Hechter, M. (1973) 'The persistence of regionalism in the British Isles, 1885 - 1966', American Journal of Sociology, 319-342