Summary information

Study title

Psephological Datasets, 1702-1865; Shrewsbury Poll Books, 1814

Creator

Crompton, F., Worcester College of Higher Education

Study number / PID

3033 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-3033-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

This series of datasets contains information collected from poll books in the course of research and teaching.
Study No. 3033 comprises a computer transcript of the Shrewsbury poll books in order to investigate voting behaviour using nominal record linkage.
Main Topics:

Voting behaviour.
Variables:
Name; occupation; address; vote; generation.

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1989 - 01/01/1994

Country

England

Time dimension

Time Series

Analysis unit

Subnational
Electors
Individuals
Text units (documents/chapters/words)

Universe

All electors voting in a single place in the Shrewsbury Borough bye-election of 1814.

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Text

Data collection mode

Transcription of existing materials

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1994

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

Not available