Great Britain Historical Database : Labour Markets Database, Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1845-1913

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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 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.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-3710-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=935deb595755b026b948810719ef6caa17495c4d96d7dbe81146e18c995535b3
Provenance
Creator 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
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1999
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council; Population Investigation Committee; Leverhulme Trust; Nuffield Foundation
Rights <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; <p>These data are no longer available for download here; however, they can be accessed openly under SN4564 and SN4565.</p><p>-<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>For the Statistics of Wages data, please see <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4564">SN4564</a></p><p>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For the Hours of Work data, please see <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4565">SN4565</a></p>
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Resource Type Text; Numeric
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Ireland; Multi-nation; United Kingdom