ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> Scottish Poor Law Commission Statistics, 1844 </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:1132</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigator</H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Levitt, I.<br>Plymouth Polytechnic. Department of Social Administration<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Sponsor</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Economic and Social Research Council<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> Levitt, I., <i> Scottish Poor Law Commission Statistics, 1844</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], 1977. SN: 1132, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-1132-1 </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <h5><b>Copyright: </b><br> I. Levitt </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 1132 . Scottish Poor Law Commission Statistics, 1844<br> </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>Levitt, I. , Plymouth Polytechnic. Department of Social Administration</h5> <h3>Principal Investigator:</h3> <h5>Levitt, I. , Plymouth Polytechnic. Department of Social Administration</h5> <H3>Sponsor:</H3><H5> Economic and Social Research Council<br> </H5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>This study uses statistics from the <i>Report of the Scottish Poor Law Commissioners</i> (1844) to investigate and map the condition of the Scottish working class in 1843 on a parish by parish basis. The stated aim of the Scottish Poor Law Commissioners investigation in 1843 was <i>To make a diligent and full inquiry into the practical operation of laws which provide for the relief of the poor in Scotland</i> (from the opening remarks of the Commissioners, volume 20), which was carried out in 1843.</h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5>Poor relief, parishes, food, prices, wages, occupations, rents, housing, rural facilities, language and emigration.<br> <br> <br> Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.</h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'> Time Period Covered:</i> March 1843 - March 1844 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> Scotland <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> no information recorded <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Administrative units (geographical/political) <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Numeric data; Aggregate (macro) level </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> People in all Scottish parishes, 1844, listed under the Poor Laws. </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Cross-sectional (one-time) study <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> No sampling (total universe) <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> 906 (target) 815 (obtained) parishes <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Compilation or synthesis of existing material <br><i class='myclass'>Data Sources: </i> Report of the Scottish Poor Law Commissioners, 1844 </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required. Available to all registered users. The depositor may be informed about usage. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> History Data Service, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: hds@essex.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 1977<br></h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5> I. Levitt</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>19 December 2011</h5> </body></html>