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. 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 census.ukdataservice.ac.uk
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 :Statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar General's reports, 1851-1861 Employment statistics from the census, 1841-1931 Demographic statistics from the census, 1841-1931 Mortality statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1861-1920 Marriage statistics from the Registrar General's reports, 1841-1870 Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), 1851-1918 Trade union statistics for the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ), 1863-1912 Official poor law statistics, 1859-1915 and 1919-1939 Wage statistics, 1845-1906 Hours of work statistics, 1900-1913 Small debt statistics from county courts, 1847-1913 and 1938
There are seven tables in this part of the Great Britain Historical Database : Ase_mr holds data for each branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) taken from the Monthly Reports of the ASE from 1851 to 1912, and includes data about admissions, membership, unemployment benefit, strike pay, sickness benefit and pensions. Quarterly data from 1851 to 1872 and biannual data from 1873 to 1912. Ase_mr_95_96 holds a fuller version of the biannual data transcribed from the Monthly Reports of the ASE for 1895 and 1896, for which a special compressed format was used. Ase_admit holds annual admissions data for each branch taken from the Annual Reports of the ASE from 1853 to 1909. Ase_mem holds annual data about changes in membership for each branch taken from Annual Reports of the ASE for 1871 and 1872. Ase_fin holds summary annual data about the finances of the whole union taken from Annual Reports of the ASE from 1851 to 1918. Gaz_ase70 uniquely identifies individual ASE branches in existence between 1861 and 1871 and gives their location in 1871. Cj_mr holds biannual data for each branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASCJ) taken from the Monthly Reports of the ASCJ from 1863 to 1912 (excluding 1870 reports), and includes data about admissions, membership, unemployment benefit, strike pay, sickness benefit and pensions. Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
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