John G. Treble () (School of Business and Regional Development, University of Wales, Bangor, UK)
Abstract
The Victorian Household Panel Study is a machine-readable dataset, which has been compiled from four sources: the wages book and plans of Garesfield Bute pit at High Spen in County Durham, England, the Ordnance Survey map of 1895, the 1891 Census of Population. It contains detailed information about the households, work places and assignments, output and pay of the hewers, putters and supervisory underground workers in the pit for a period of 30.5 months from June 1890 to January 1893. For hewers, an important feature of work and society was the system of marrowing, under which they chose their own work mates, and shared earnings with them. The Panel Study permits reconstruction of the history of marrow pairings during the data period. Data on work places and assignments, output and pay forms an unbalanced panel of observations of the behaviour of those workers who were present in the pit from time to time. Household information is drawn from the Census, and is therefore a snapshot of household structure at a single point. Release 1b consists of the transcription of the first source listed above, including codes linking workers across pays, and the wages book to the three other sources. It also includes the data from these three sources. Release 2 consists of two prepared STATA datasets, that were used to derive results reported in publications [5] (Journal of Economic History) and [6] (Journal of Labor Economics (under revision)).
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Paper provided by Institute for Labour Research in its series ILR working papers with number
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Length: 12 Date of creation: Nov 2000 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:esl:ilrdps:062
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