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The data from the Census Enumerators' books for the Isle of Sheppey for the censuses of 1851, 1861 and 1871 were collected as part of a study which aimed to investigate the development of the workforce in Sheerness Naval Dockyard as an occupational community between 1820 and 1960. In addition to the census data, the study collected other documentary materials and involved oral history interviews.
An associated qualitative dataset, <i>The Creation and Collapse of an Occupational Community, the Case of Sheerness Naval Dockyard</i>, is available via Qualidata at the University of Essex.
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Census enumerators data was collected for all dockyard workers and included all information about the individuals (i.e. age, sex, marital status, occupation, birthplace) and most information about their household and family situations.
The data is on two separate tapes. On the one known as the unlinked file there is a separate case for each dockyard worker at each census. In the linked file each case contains the details relating to an individual dockyard worker at all three censuses. Thus a dockyard worker recorded at each census would have one case associated in the linked file and three cases in the unlinked file. The unlinked file is intended to allow analysis of the dockyard in the separate census years and aggregate changes between censuses, while the linked file is intended to allow analysis of individual changes between the censuses.