Summary information
Study title
Long-term Changes in Nutrition, Welfare and Productivity in Britain; Physical and Socio-economic Characteristics of Recruits to the Army and Royal Marines, 1760-1879
Creator
Floud, R., University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College
Study number / PID
2131 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-2131-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
To use information about the heights of the British since the middle of the eighteenth century to describe their nutritional status and to explore its relationship to the welfare and productivity of that populationMain Topics:
Variables
Height, age, occupation, place of birth, place and date of recruitment, regiment (if in the army); colour of eyes, hair and complexion; literacy; height at age 24; reason and date of death or discharge; name.
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
01/01/1985
Country
Great Britain, Ireland
Time dimension
Time Series
Analysis unit
Cross-national
National
Groups
Army recruits
Men
Young people
Universe
Army recruits, mostly aged 18-25, men only, mostly working class, excluding the short and unfit
Sampling procedure
(a) A list was compiled of all those description books which, according to the P.R.O. indexes, contained information on recruiting during a particular decade. This was done for each decade between 1760 and 1889.
(b) The books were divided between those from the Army and those from the Royal Marines. A random sample was then drawn from each set of books within each decade, e.g. for the Army in the 1780s.
(c) Information on all recruits who joined within that decade was then taken from the books, up to a sample size of 5000 each from the Army and Royal Marines, or a lesser number if there were not sufficient recruits.
(b) The books were divided between those from the Army and those from the Royal Marines. A random sample was then drawn from each set of books within each decade, e.g. for the Army in the 1780s.
(c) Information on all recruits who joined within that decade was then taken from the books, up to a sample size of 5000 each from the Army and Royal Marines, or a lesser number if there were not sufficient recruits.
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1986
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Related publications
Not available