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Great Britain Historical Database : Census Statistics, Demography, 1841-1931
Creator
Southall, H. R., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography
Gregory, I., 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
3707 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-3707-1 (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 five tables in this part of the Great Britain Historical Database :
Rd_pop holds population totals for all registration districts in England and Wales for each census from 1841 to 1911.
Pop_chan holds details of population changes between censuses for all...
Terminology used is generally based on DDI controlled vocabularies: Time Method, Analysis Unit, Sampling Procedure and Mode of Collection, available at CESSDA Vocabulary Service.
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/1977 - 01/01/1996
Country
England and Wales
Time dimension
Decennial data
Time Series
Analysis unit
National
Census data
Demographic data
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 currently unavailable for download.
Users can browse the Great Britain Historical Database documentation system online by accessing A Vision of Britain webpages.