Research data supporting ‘WP 9: Reconstructing entrepreneur and business numbers for censuses 1851-81’: final decisions

This dataset contains the codes for the decisions in England and Wales made for each Sub-Occode to assign each individual identified by RecID to a status of employer or own account entrepreneur. (worker RecIDs are given in a separate download). This is method EMPSTATUS_NUM as outlined in the BBCE User Guide. The method is given in full in WP 9. The variables provided are: SubOccodeNo - SubOccode code SubOccode - SubOccode title 1891UR - Unrounded estimate based on 1891 data 1891R - Rounded estimate based on 1891 data 1901UR - Unrounded estimate based on 1901 data 1901R - Rounded estimate based on 1901 data 1891Ratio - Estimate based on the 1891 ratio of either entrepreneurs to workers, or employers to own account 1901Ratio - Estimate based on the 1901 ratio of either entrepreneurs to workers, or employers to own account Decision - Code indicating the option used. For 1851 EOA, E; 1861EOA, E; and 1881E five codes exist: 1-1891 unrounded; 2-1891 rounded; 3-1901 unrounded; 4-1901 rounded; 5-1891 ratio. For 1881EOA 7 codes exist: 1-1891 unrounded; 2-1891 rounded; 3-1901 unrounded; 4-1901 rounded; 5-1891 ratio; 6-1901 ratio; 7-use 1881 extracted