Summary information
Study title
Scottish-Registered Companies Investing Abroad, 1862-1914
Creator
Schmitz, C., University of St Andrews, School of History
Study number / PID
5005 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-5005-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Main Topics:
This dataset presents an analysis of Scottish limited liability companies registered in Edinburgh for foreign mining, plantations, ranching, land investment, railways, telegraphs, manufacturing, financial and mercantile services between 1862 and 1914. Amongst other variables, it contains information concerning: company registration, company dissolution, location, activities, capital, debenture, directors and significant shareholders.
This dataset presents an analysis of Scottish limited liability companies registered in Edinburgh for foreign mining, plantations, ranching, land investment, railways, telegraphs, manufacturing, financial and mercantile services between 1862 and 1914. Amongst other variables, it contains information concerning: company registration, company dissolution, location, activities, capital, debenture, directors and significant shareholders.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/1990 - 01/01/2002
Country
Scotland
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Institutions/organisations
Cross-national
National
Subnational
Universe
Scottish limited liability companies, 1862- 1914.
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
R000232212
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.