1991 unemployment rates interpolated onto 1898 Registration Districts

Table ID:

OCC_1991_UNEM     (1252070)

Contents:

1991 unemployment rates interpolated onto 1898 Registration Districts

Approx. number of rows:

636

Table type:

Raw Data

Documentation Author:

Humphrey Southall

Geography:

Reporting units are identified by:
   Registration District

Chronology:

The data are for the single year 1991.

Sources:

1. These data originated as Enumeration District-level data from the 1991 census, as supplied by the Office of National Statistics. However, they have been assembled into 1898 Registration Districts.

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Notes:

1. This data set was constructed as a part of research into long-run trends in geographical inequality in England and Wales, prepared for the 1998 conference marking the 100th anniversary of Rowntree's famous study of poverty in York; see Ian Gregory et al, 'A Century of Poverty in England and Wales, 1898-1998: A Geographical Analysis', pp.130-59 in J. Bradshaw and R. Sainsbury, Researching Poverty (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000). This explains the use of 1898 Registration Districts as the target areas.
2. Danny Dorling first re-allocated the ED-level data to 1981 wards. The ward-level data were then re-allocated to 1898 Registration Districts by allocating each ward to the RD within which most of it lay.
3. Information on persons on training schemes, and the long-term sick is included on the grounds that many of these represented concealed unemployment.
4. This table has been built in Postgres, but no matching to the AUO has been attempted.

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Checking:

1. These data are as supplied by Danny Dorling; no checking possible.

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Acknowledgments:

We are extremely grateful to the following:

1. Danny Dorling: The 1991 data were redistricted to 1898 units by Danny Dorling; the original data come from ONS.

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Indices:

Index	Type	Column(s) indexed
occ_1991_unem_pkey	Primary key	rec_num
occ_1991_unem_idx		reg_dist, rec_num

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Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

Constraint	Type	Details
occ_1991_unem_pkey	Primary Key	See details above for primary key index

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Columns within table:

Column	Type	Contents
id_num	Integer number.	An ID number for the Registration District
rgd_name	Text string (max.len.=44).	Name of 1898 Registration District
reg_dist	Text string (max.len.=44).	Standardised name of 1898 Registration District
econ_act	Integer number.	The economically active population of the 1898 RD
govt_tr	Integer number.	The number of people on a government training scheme in the 1898 RD
unem	Integer number.	The number of people classed as unemployment in the 1898 RD
sick	Integer number.	The number of people classed as long-term sick in the 1898 RD
notes	Text string (max.len.=259).	Notes added after data capture
rec_num	Integer number.	Unique number identifying row in table, added during loading.