Population and occupational datasets created by the project
Most of the datasets listed below will be available from the Economic and Social Data Service at the UK Data Archive shortly. However, some of them may be embargoed for a period. The datasets all come with adequate documentation for those with the requisite technical knowledge. Sadly we do not have the resources to provide further assistance. However, we recognise that some scholars may wish to use these datasets, who either lack the requisite technical skills, or require further assistance for other reasons relating to the complexity of these resources. We are investigating mechanisms by which we might be able to fund such assistance and we would encourage registering expressions of interest in case such funding does become available (and registering an expression of interest might help us to secure finding in due course). In the meantime we may be able to help if you have funding available or if the query requires very little of our time. In the first instance, please contact the Cambridge Group’s administrator: Dr Leslie Glasssmith <llg20@cam.ac.uk>
1. 1801 to 1891 Census Report of England and Wales: Parish and Registration District Population
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing a continuous series of male, female and total population data for England and Wales at several spatial levels. The data are given in 1851-based registration districts for each decadal Census year from 1801 to 1851, and in Census places for each decadal Census year from 1801 to 1891. The database also contains the 1851 Census-based registration parish identifier(s) that have been matched to each place, and the place level population data has been rearranged into 12,641 quasi-parish level mappable units. This information was derived from corrected and improved versions of the 1801-51 Census Reports, and the published 1861-91 Census Reports. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Parish Township Place GIS.
Filename: 1801to91CensusReportEngWalesParishRDPop.mdb
2. 1801 to 1851 Population Data for England and Wales
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing male, female, and total populations at each census date. At each census date the information is provided in two series, one using the ‘ancient’ administrative divisions (county, hundred, and parish), the other using ‘modern’ divisions (registration county, registration district, registration subdistrict, and parish). Each series is provided in two forms, one closely paralleling the census totals but correcting for arithmetic and printing errors, the other increasing the census totals to offset the effects of the under-registration infants, the treatment of men of militia camps (who were included in county totals but excluded from smaller units), and the absence of men in the army, navy, and merchant shipping. This information was derived from corrected and improved versions of the 1801-51 Census Reports.
Filename: Not yet available.
3. 1813-20 Parish Register Occupational Data for England and Wales
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data for each of the 11,364 abstractions of the occupations of the father at baptism of children, collected from almost the entirety of the extant parish registers in England and Wales that were maintained between 1813 and 1820. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme.
Filename: 1813-20PREngWalesOccs.mdb
4. 1817 Estimated Census of Adult Male Occupations for England and Wales in 1851 Registration Districts
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on the estimated numbers of occupations for men aged over 20 for England and Wales in 1817 for 623 registration districts (all bar the Scilly Isles) used by the 1851 Census of England and Wales. The database itself was manufactured from the 1813-20 parish register occupational data for England and Wales (database 3, above), and the 1801 to 1851 Population data for England and Wales (database 2, above). The actual process of construction is fully described in P. M. Kitson, L. Shaw-Taylor, E. A. Wrigley, R. S. Davies, G. Newton, and M. Satchell, ‘The creation of a ‘census’ of adult male employment for England and Wales for 1817’. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Districts GIS.
Filename: 1817EstCensusEngWalesRDOccs.mdb
5. 1831 Census Report of England: County and Parish Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female types of employment in England in 1831 in 14,888 subhundredal, mainly parish level units, and at quasi-parish level in 13,762 units for mapping. This information was derived from the 1831 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped at county level using the Occupations Project 1831 England ancient counties GIS and at a quasi-parish level using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Parish Township Place GIS.
Filename: 1831CensusReportEngCountyParishOccs.mdb
6. 1841 Census Report of England, Wales and Scotland: County Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England, Wales and Scotland at county level in 1841, for those aged under and over twenty years. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from corrected versions of 1841 occupational data prepared by H.R. Southall et al, which are based on the 1841 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1841 Britain Ancient Counties GIS.
Filename: 1841CensusReportEngWalesScotCountyOccs.mdb
7. 1841 Census Report of England, Wales and Scotland: Town Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England, Wales and Scotland at town level for 236 towns in 1841, for those aged under and over twenty years. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from corrected versions of 1841 occupational data prepared by H.R. Southall et al, which are based on the 1841 Census Report.
Filename: 1841CensusReportEngWalesScotTownOccs.mdb
8. 1851 Census Report of England and Wales: Town Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales at town level for 78 principal towns in 1851, for those aged under and over twenty years. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1851 Census Report.
Filename: 1851CensusReportEngWalesTownOccs.mdb
9. 1851 Census Report of England and Wales: Registration County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales for persons at all ages in five-year bands at registration county level and at national level (England and Wales together) in 1851. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1851 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Counties GIS.
Filename: 1851CensusReportEngWalesCountyNatOccs.mdb
10. 1851 Census Report of England and Wales: Registration District Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales for persons aged over twenty years in all 624 registration districts in 1851. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1851 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Districts GIS.
Filename: 1851CensusReportEngWalesRDOccs.mdb
11. 1851 Census Report of Scotland: County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Scotland for persons at all ages in five-year bands at county level and at national level in 1851. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1851 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Scotland Ancient Counties GIS.
Filename: 1851CensusReportScotCountyNatOccs.mdb
12. 1851 Census Report of Wales: County Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Wales for persons over twenty years of age at the county level in 1851. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1851 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Wales Counties GIS.
Filename: 1851CensusReportWalesCountyOccs.mdb
13. 1861 Census Report of England and Wales: Registration County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales for persons at all ages in five and ten-year bands at the registration county level and at national level (England and Wales together) in 1861. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1861 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Counties GIS.
Filename: 1861CensusReportEngWalesCountyNatOccs.mdb
14. 1861 Census Report of England and Wales: Registration District Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales for persons aged over twenty years in all 635 registration districts in 1861. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1861 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Districts GIS.
Filename: 1861CensusReportEngWalesRDOccs.mdb
15. 1861 Census Report of England and Wales: Town Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales at town level for 78 principal towns in 1861, for those aged under and over twenty years. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1861 Census Report.
Filename: 1861CensusReportEngWalesTownOccs.mdb
16. 1861 Census Report of Scotland: County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Scotland for persons at all ages in five-year bands at county and national level in 1861. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1861 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Scotland Ancient Counties GIS.
Filename: 1861CensusReportScotCountyNatOccs.mdb
17. 1861 Census Report of Scotland: Town Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Scotland for 23 town districts in 1861, for those aged under and over twenty years. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1861 Census Report.
Filename: 1861CensusReportScotTownOccs.mdb
18. 1861 Census Report of Wales: County Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Wales for persons over twenty years of age at the county level in 1861. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1861 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Wales Counties GIS.
Filename: 1861CensusReportWalesCountyOccs.mdb
19. 1871 Census Report of England and Wales: Registration County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales for persons at all ages in five or ten-year bands at the registration county level and at national level (England and Wales together) in 1871. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1871 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Counties GIS.
Filename: 1871CensusReportEngWalesCountyNatOccs.mdb
20. 1871 Census Report of England and Wales: Town Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England (including islands in the British seas) and Wales at town level for 84 principal towns in 1871, for those aged over twenty years. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1871 Census Report.
Filename: 1871CensusReportEngWalesTownOccs.mdb
21. 1871 Census Report of Scotland: County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Scotland for non-pauper persons at all ages in five or ten-year bands at the county level and at national level in 1871. The same information for paupers is present at county level but separate from the non-pauper information. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1871 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Scotland Ancient Counties GIS.
Filename: 1871CensusReportScotCountyNatOccs.mdb
22. 1871 Census Report of Wales: County Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Wales at the county level in 1871, for those aged under and over twenty years. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1871 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Wales Counties GIS.
Filename: 1871CensusReportWalesCountyOccs.mdb
23. 1881 Census Enumerators’ Books for England and Wales: Parish Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales in 1881 for all persons (including the retired) in five-year age bands in all 15,132 registration parishes, and at quasi-parish level in 14,933 units for mapping. This information was derived from a machine-readable version of the 1881 Census Enumerators’ Books dataset with occupational coding prepared by Kevin Schürer and Matthew Woollard. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. The dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Parish Township Place GIS.
Filename: 1881CEBEngWalesParishOccs.mdb
24. 1881 Census Enumerators’ Books for England and Wales: Registration District Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales in 1881 for all persons (including the retired) in five-year age bands in 1851 (sic) registration districts. The 1881 Census Report does not contain registration district level occupational information. Therefore, this information was derived from a machine-readable version of the 1881 Census Enumerators’ Books dataset with occupational coding prepared by Kevin Schürer and Matthew Woollard. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Districts GIS.
Filename: 1881CEBEngWalesRDOccs.mdb
25. 1881 Census Report of England and Wales: Registration County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales for persons over five years of age at registration county level, and at all ages in five, ten or twenty-year bands at national level (England and Wales together), in 1881. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1881 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Counties GIS.
Filename: 1881CensusReportEngWalesCountyNatOccs.mdb
26. 1881 Census Report of Scotland: County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Scotland for persons at all ages in five, ten, fifteen or twenty-year bands at county and national level in 1881. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1881 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Scotland Ancient Counties GIS.
Filename: 1881CensusReportScotCountyNatOccs.mdb
27. 1881 Census Report of Scotland: Town Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Scotland for 42 parliamentary, municipal and police burghs in 1881, for all persons subdivided into seven age groups. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1881 Census Report.
Filename: 1881CensusReportScotTownOccs.mdb
28. 1881 Census Report of Wales: County Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Wales for persons over five years of age at county level in 1881, and also giving the number of all persons including those under five years. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1881 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Wales Counties GIS.
Filename: 1881CensusReportWalesCountyOccs.mdb
29. 1891 Census Report of England and Wales: Registration County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales for persons aged ten years and upwards at registration county level and at national level (England and Wales together) in 1891. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1891 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Counties GIS.
Filename: 1891CensusReportEngWalesCountyNatOccs.mdb
30. 1891 Census Report of Scotland: County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Scotland for persons at all ages in five, ten, fifteen or twenty-year bands at county level and at national level in 1891. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1891 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Scotland Ancient Counties GIS.
Filename: 1891CensusReportScotCountyNatOccs.mdb
31. 1891 Census Report of Wales: County Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in Wales for persons over ten years of age at the county level in 1891. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1891 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Wales Counties GIS.
Filename: 1891CensusReportWalesCountyOccs.mdb
32. 1901 Census Report of England and Wales: County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales for persons ten years and over at county level and at national level (England and Wales together) in 1901, including marital status for females, age breakdowns and manner of employment for the counties of Yorkshire (all three ridings together), London and Lancashire, and age breakdowns and manner of employment for special occupations only, in certain counties. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1901 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Counties GIS.
Filename: 1901CensusReportEngWalesCountyNatOccs.mdb
33. 1901 Census Report of Scotland: County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations and manner of employment in Scotland at county level and at national level, for persons over ten years in age groups in 1901. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This dataset was derived from the 1901 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 Scotland Ancient Counties GIS.
Filename: 1901CensusReportScotCountyNatOccs.mdb
34. 1911 Census Report of England and Wales: County and National Occupations
Microsoft Access 2000 database providing data on male and female occupations in England and Wales for persons ten years and over at county level and at national level (England and Wales together) in 1911, including marital status for females, and age breakdowns and manner of employment in the national tables only. The occupations are coded to the Primary, Secondary Tertiary (PST) scheme. This information was derived from the 1911 Census Report. This dataset can be mapped using the Occupations Project 1851 England and Wales Registration Counties GIS.
Filename: 1911CensusReportEngWalesCountyNatOccs.mdb
35. 1911 Census Report of Scotland: County and National Occupations
Due to an administrative oversight this dataset is not yet available. Details will follow in the near future.
36. HISCO to PST Database Documentation
Microsoft Access 2000 database for translating a three number Hisco occupational code into a PST (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary) occupational code equivalent.
Filename: HISCOtoPSTDBDocumentation.mdb