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Study title

Long-Term Changes in Nutrition, Welfare and Productivity in Britain; Physical and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Boys Recruited into the Marine Society, 1770-1873

Creator

Floud, R., University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College

Study number / PID

2134 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2134-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To use information about the heights of the British since the middle of the eighteenth century to describe their nutritional status and to explore its relationship to the welfare and productivity of that population
Main Topics:

Variables
Height, age, occupation of boy and parent, place of residence, date of recruitment, ability to read and write, date of apprenticeship if relevant, whether had smallpox, nearest relative (kinship category, name)

Topics

HistoryEconomic conditions and indicatorsHealth behaviourGeneral health and well-beingSocial conditions and indicators

Keywords

AGEAPPRENTICESHIPBOYSDIET AND EXERCISEFAMILY MEMBERSFATHER'S OCCUPATIONHEIGHT (PHYSIOLOGY)LITERACYMILITARY PERSONNEL RECORDSNAVIESOCCUPATIONSPARENTS
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1985

Country

England

Time dimension

Time Series

Analysis unit

Subnational
Naval recruits
Groups
Army recruits
Men
Young people

Universe

Poor boys aged 12-18 (mostly 13-16) which the Marine Society recruited clothed and sent as servants to the Navy or as apprentices to merchant ships; those very short or unfit excluded, England 1770-1873.

Sampling procedure

The data were sampled for time periods in which the Society did not change the height standards for recruitment: 1770-75, 1780-83, 1792-93, 1800-04, 1811-13, 1816-17, 1818-20, 1821-23, 1824-25, 1826-28, 1838-39, 1842-44, 1845-47 and 1860-61. It was intended to get samples of about 500 cases for each date period (if that number were recruited in the period), and a systematic sample was taken of the MSYO and MSYQ datasets, keeping the proportion of each in the samples the same as in the total population. The samples also, however, incorporate some early samples of MSYO birth cohort data, for dates of birth 1756-57, 1778 and 1798 (a random sample of a quarter of the data were taken for the last two dates)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1986

Terms of data access

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

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