Summary information

Study title

Great Britain Historical Database : Labour Markets Database, Trade Union Statistics, 1851-1918

Creator

Gregory, I., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography
Southall, H. R., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography
Gilbert, D. R., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography

Study number / PID

3712 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-3712-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Great Britain Historical Database has been assembled as part of the ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS Project. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on A Vision of Britain webpages, where users can browse the database's documentation system online. The Great Britain Historical GIS Project has also produced digitised boundary data, which can be obtained from the UK Data Service Census Support service. Further information is available at census.ukdataservice.ac.ukMain Topics: The Great Britain Historical Database is a large database of British nineteenth and twentieth-century statistics. Where practical the referencing of spatial units has been integrated, data for different dates have been assembled into single tables. The Great Britain Historical Database currently contains :Statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar General's reports, 1851-1861 Employment statistics from the census, 1841-1931 Demographic statistics from the census, 1841-1931 Mortality statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1861-1920 Marriage statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1841-1870 Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), 1851-1918 Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ), 1863-1912 Official poor law statistics, 1859-1915 and 1919-1939 Wage statistics, 1845-1906 Hours of work statistics, 1900-1913 Small debt statistics from county courts, 1847-1913 and 1938 There are seven tables in this part of the Great Britain Historical Database : Ase_mr holds data for each branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) taken from the Monthly Reports of the ASE from 1851 to 1912, and includes data about admissions, membership,...
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1977 - 01/01/1996

Country

Ireland, Multi-nation, United Kingdom

Time dimension

Annual data 1851-1918 <br>Biannual data 1863-1912 <br>Quarterly data 1851-1872
Time Series

Analysis unit

Cross-national
National
Trade union members
Unemployment statistics
Administrative units (geographical/political)

Universe

Administrative units in the British Isles.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Text
Numeric

Data collection mode

Transcription
Compilation/Synthesis

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1998

Terms of data access

These data are no longer available for download here; however, they can be accessed openly under SN4569

Related publications

Not available