Summary information
Study title
Parliamentary Poll Books of Colchester, Essex, 1806, 1807 and 1812
Creator
Woollard, M., University of Essex, Department of History
Study number / PID
4609 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-4609-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
This dataset was created to demonstrate the record linkage possibilities for the software kleio.
Main Topics:
The dataset contains a machine-readable transcription of the 1806, 1807 and 1812 poll books for Colchester. It contains four tables: the first three tables contain the voting choices of each elector along with their name, address and occupation. The fourth table contains a standardised version of the occupation and the occupational code HISCO. (See M.H.D. van Leeuwen, I. Maas and A. Miles, (2002) HISCO - Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations, Leuven.)
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/2002 - 01/01/2002
Country
England
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Individuals
Subnational
Universe
Voters in the Parliamentary elections for Colchester, 1806, 1807 and 1812
Sampling procedure
No sampling (total universe)
Kind of data
Text
Data collection mode
Transcription of existing materials
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2003
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