National Sample from the 1851 Census of Great Britain

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The objects of the project were,<br>
1. To draw a two per cent systematic stratified cluster sample from the enumerators' books; the cluster unit is the settlement for settlements of less than 2,000 population (England and Wales only), twenty successive individuals in every 1,000 (adjusted so that families are not broken up) for institutions, and one enumerators book in fifty for the rest of the country.<br>
2. To prepare a complete machine-readable transcript of the roughly 400,000 individual entries resulting from the sample.<br>
3. To code the data by computer into standardised numerical form using specially developed coding directories and appropriate coding software.<br>
4. To prepare a number of data sets in appropriate formats for use with standard data analysis packages.<br>
5. To employ the data set via package or other software to explore various salient aspects of the nineteenth century social and economic structure at national, regional, occupational and other levels of analysis and to write up the results for publication.<br>
6. To make available to interested parties data sets of a kind suitable for their purposes whether in the form of transcripts, coded data sets in various formats, photocopies of partially processed data and so on.<br>
7. To produce special tabulations for interested scholars (subject to constraints of time and computing resources) and to assist others in doing tabulation or preparing their own software to access the data.<br>
8. To make available ancillary products of the data set such as coding directories, code books etc.<br>
9. To act as a centre of expertise in problems of census analysis and of the National Sample data sets.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Variables<br>
Name, address, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, sex, occupation, place of birth, whether blind or deaf and dumb.