Analytical Datasets for the Study of Unemployment

This section of GBHDB contains derived datasets related to unemployment and economic distress. This means primarily datasets which include various measures of unemployment, including the claimant count and census findings, but also contain possible explanatory variables drawn from elsewhere in the system.


Tables within section:

TableTypeContents
unem_1931_comp Derived 1931 Unemployment data from the census, poor law and National Insurance for counties and large towns.
unem_1931_lgd Derived Census unemployment in 1931 plus explanatory variables
unem_iw_series Derived Unemployment Series from inter-war National Insurance and Poor Law data for Nations and Regions