Summary information

Study title

Great Britain Historical Database : Economic Distress and Labour Markets Data : Small Debt Statistics, 1847, 1851-1857, 1866, 1868-1913 and 1938

Creator

Gilbert, D. R, University of London, Royal Holloway, Department of Geography
Southall, H. R., University of Portsmouth, School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences

Study number / PID

4568 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-4568-1 (DOI)

Data access

Open

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.


Main Topics:

Court-level small debt statistics for pre-1914 and 1938 England and Wales.

Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.

Topics

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1999 - 01/01/2002

Country

England and Wales, England, Wales

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
Institutions/organisations
Cross-national
National
Subnational

Universe

Persons in debt in England and Wales for the years 1847, 1851 to 1857, 1866, 1868 to 1913 and 1938

Sampling procedure

Purposive selection/case studies

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Transcription of existing materials
Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2004

Terms of data access

  The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.