Finding data

This study uses statistics from the Report of the Scottish Poor Law Commissioners (1844) to investigation and map the condition of the Scottish working class in 1843 on a parish by parish basis. The stated aim of the Scottish Poor Law Commissioners investiagtion in 1843 was "To make diligent and full inquiry into the practical operation of laws which provide for the relief of the poor in Scotland" (from the opening remarks of the Commissioners, volume 20).

The main topics covered by the study are:

poor relief
parishes
food
prices, rents and wages
occupations
housing
rural facilities
language and emigration

UKDA Study Number:

1132

Spatial Coverage:

Scotland

Data Creator:

I. Levitt (Plymouth Polytechnic. Department of Social Administration)

Time Period:

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Data Publisher:

UK Data Archive, University of Essex

Place of Publication:

Essex, UK

Documentation:

Machine-readable codebook in Adobe PDF.

A hardcopy codebook is also available from the Data Library

File Information

File Descriptions:

e132.exp is the SPSS portable file.
code.pdf is the portable documentation file.
*.txt are the ASCII text citation and readme files.

File Storage :

Written to CD-ROM 27/1/03.

Format:

SPSS exportfile.

Data Access:

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