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The aims of this project were to make available to scholars and other researchers information on average weekly age-and sex-specific earnings and employment shares (i.e. proportions of the total industry labour force employed) of British cotton textile workers in each year between 1833 and 1906, and to provide details on how those estimates were prepared.

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This collection comprises data on estimates of the average weekly earnings, and proportions of the industry labour force employed, by age and sex in every year between 1833 and 1906. R code and data are also provided so that interested users can use them to reproduce (but also to re-run the calculations making different assumptions) the results published in The Economic History Review (see the 'External Note' section below) and generate the data provided to History Data Service. 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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