Great Britain Historical Database : Vital Statistics, Mortality Statistics, 1851-1920

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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 four tables in this part of the Great Britain Historical Database : Mort_age holds mortality data for males and females in age groups for all registration districts in England and Wales for each decade between 1851-60 and 1901-10, except 1871-80. Mort_age_70 holds age-specific mortality data for the decade 1871-80 for all registration districts in England and Wales. The Registrar General's Decennial Supplement for 1871-80 did not break down by gender the statistics for individual Registration Districts. Mort_ann holds annual data on mortality classified by cause for all registration districts in the county of London from 1860 to 1910, and for all London boroughs from 1911 to 1920. Lon_subd holds quarterly data on infant mortality for registration sub-districts in the county of London from 1881 to 1884. 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 http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-3708-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=b6a8a518c4e738be9237d66f7c71e0bfe55ed08b5f62bc30b63302758fbbc612
Provenance
Creator Southall, H. R., 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; Gregory, I., University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1998
Funding Reference Leverhulme Trust; Population Investigation Committee; Economic and Social Research Council; Nuffield Foundation
Rights Copyright H.R. Southall, D.R. Gilbert and I. Gregory; <p class="MsoNormal">These data are no longer available for download here; however, they can be accessed openly under SN4570, SN9034, and SN9035.</p><ul><li>For Vital Statistics, see <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4570">SN4570 </a>and <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9035">SN9035</a>.</li><li>For Mortality Statistics, see <a href="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=9034">SN9034</a></li></ul>
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Language English
Resource Type Text; Numeric
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Greater London; England and Wales