Summary information
Study title
Spending and Taxation Patterns for Municipal Corporations, Local Boards and the Urban Sanitary Authorities in England and Wales, Selected Years, 1868-1888
Creator
Daunton, M., University of Cambridge, Faculty of History
Aidt, T., University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics and Politics
Dutta, J., University of Birmingham, Department of Economics
Study number / PID
5024 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-5024-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The data set was created as part of the ESRC funded project Economic Policy and Political Myopia. The aim of the project was to study the degree of political myopia in public policy today and in the past both from an empirical and a theoretical perspective. The data on fiscal outcomes in municipal boroughs in 1868-1888 was collected to investigate the link between spending on urban sanitation and the local voting franchise.
Main Topics:
The dataset contains information about fiscal outcomes (taxation and spending, including all sub-categories) for 75 municipal boroughs in 1868, 1871, 1875, 1886 and 1888. Data is collected from the accounts of the Municipal Corporations (all years), the accounts of the Local Boards (1868 and 1871) and the Urban Sanitary Authorities (1875, 1886 and 1888) as report in the yearly Local Taxation Returns.
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
01/01/2002 - 01/01/2003
Country
England, Wales
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Administrative units (geographical/political)
Cross-national
National
Subnational
Universe
Municipal Boroughs in England and Wales
Sampling procedure
Purposive selection/case studies
Kind of data
Text
Numeric
Data collection mode
Transcription of existing materials
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Funding information
Grant number
L138251006
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2004
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
- Aidt, T., Daunton, M. and Dutta, J. (2003) The local franchise and public spending in England and Wales 1865-1888, [Paper]..