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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 3710 Great Britain Historical Database : Labour Markets Database, Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1845-1913 371010.5255/UKDA-SN-3710-1 Gregory, I., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography Gilbert, D. R., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography Southall, H. R., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/re-using-public-sector-information/uk-government-licensing-framework/crown-copyright/" target="_blank">© Crown copyright</a> held jointly with H.R. Southall, D.R. Gilbert and I. Gregory Economic and Social Research CouncilPopulation Investigation CommitteeLeverhulme TrustNuffield Foundation UK Data Service 08 September 1999 COAL MINERSCOAL MININGOCCUPATIONSGOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONSREPORTSWAGESHOURS OF WORK Labour and employmentHistorySocial conditions and indicatorsDemography (population, vital statistics and censuses)Economic conditions and indicators 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 href="https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/gbhdb/" target="_blank" style="outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(35, 82, 124); text-decoration-line: underline;">A Vision of Britain webpages</a>, where users can browse the database's documentation system online. The Great Britain Historical GIS Project has also produced digitised boundary data, which can be obtained from the UK Data Service Census Support service. Further information is available at <a href="http:\\census.ukdataservice.ac.uk" title="UK Data Service Census Support" target="_blank">census.ukdataservice.ac.uk</a>Main Topics: The Great Britain Historical Database is a large database of British nineteenth and twentieth-century statistics. Where practical the referencing of spatial units has been integrated, data for different dates have been assembled into single tables. The Great Britain Historical Database currently contains : <ul><li>Statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar General's reports, 1851-1861 </li><li>Employment statistics from the census, 1841-1931 </li><li>Demographic statistics from the census, 1841-1931 </li><li>Mortality statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1861-1920 </li><li>Marriage statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1841-1870 </li><li>Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), 1851-1918 </li><li>Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ), 1863-1912 </li><li>Official poor law statistics, 1859-1915 and 1919-1939 </li><li>Wage statistics, 1845-1906 </li><li>Hours of work statistics, 1900-1913 </li><li>Small debt statistics from county courts, 1847-1913 and 1938 </li></ul>There are two tables in this part of the Great Britain Historical Database : Wages holds wage statistics gathered by the Board of Trade Labour Department for 24 occupations in 87 towns from 1845 to 1906. Not all towns appear for all occupations. Minedays holds monthly data on hours worked in coal-mining for between 17 and 20 coalfields from January 1900 to December 1913. Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research. 1977 - 199601 January 197701 January 1996 IrelandMulti-nationUnited Kingdom Cross-nationalNationalWagesAdministrative units (geographical/political) Administrative units in the British Isles. TextNumeric Annual wage statistics cover the period from 1845 to 1910, and consist of various annual series the earliest of which starts in 1845. Monthly data on hours worked in coal mining cover the period from January 1900 to December 1913.Time Series No sampling (total universe) TranscriptionCompilation/Synthesis These data are no longer available for download here; however, they can be accessed openly under SN4564 and SN4565.- For the Statistics of Wages data, please see <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4564">SN4564</a>- For the Hours of Work data, please see <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4565">SN4565</a> See <restrctn> https://oai.ukdataservice.ac.uk:8443/oai/provider 3710 2024-11-28T07:23:38Z ddi:codebook:2_5