Summary information
Study title
Orange Order Membership Data, with a Focus on Ireland, Canada and Scotland, 1852-2002
Creator
Kaufmann, E., University of Southampton, Department of Politics
Study number / PID
4916 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-4916-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Main Topics:
This dataset is comprised of Orange Order membership figures for various jurisdictions: male, female and junior branches, at national, provincial, county, district and lodge level; for Ireland, Canada, Scotland and internationaly. It forms part of a larger project entitled 'The Orange Order in the 20th century: A study in social change'. This wider study explores the relative impact of techno-economic, cultural and institutional factors on Orange Order membership and political influence in twentieth century Scotland, Canada and Northern Ireland.
This dataset supersedes study number 4435: Orange Order Lodge Membership, Northern Ireland, 1893-2000
Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
This dataset is comprised of Orange Order membership figures for various jurisdictions: male, female and junior branches, at national, provincial, county, district and lodge level; for Ireland, Canada, Scotland and internationaly. It forms part of a larger project entitled 'The Orange Order in the 20th century: A study in social change'. This wider study explores the relative impact of techno-economic, cultural and institutional factors on Orange Order membership and political influence in twentieth century Scotland, Canada and Northern Ireland.
This dataset supersedes study number 4435: Orange Order Lodge Membership, Northern Ireland, 1893-2000
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
01/02/1999 - 31/12/2003
Country
Canada, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Individuals
Groups
Institutions/organisations
Cross-national
National
Subnational
Universe
Members of the Orange Order, 1852-2002
Sampling procedure
See documentation for details
Kind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Transcription of existing materials
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Funding information
Grant number
R000271211
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
- Kaufmann, E. (2000) 'The Orange Order in the 20th Century: A Comparative Analysis of Northern Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland and Ontario', [paper], Canadian Political Science Association Conference-, Toronto.
- Kaufmann, E. (2002) 'The Decline of Sectarianism in the Anglo-Saxon West?: A Comparison of the Orange Order in Canada and Ulster' Ethnic Violence and Human Rights, Dehli: KIRS.
- 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
- Kaufmann, E. (2001) 'The Demise of Dominant Ethnicity in English Canada?: Orange Order Membership Decline in Ontario, 1918-1980', [paper], Canada and the End of Empire-, London.