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> Urban Poverty in Nineteenth Century Italy : Florence, Turin, Rome, 1810-1812 </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:1742</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigators </H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Woolf, S.<br>Goodman, J.<br>University of Essex. Department of History<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'> January 1982 </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> Woolf, S. and Goodman, J., <i> Urban Poverty in Nineteenth Century Italy : Florence, Turin, Rome, 1810-1812</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], January 1982. SN: 1742, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-1742-1 </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> No information recorded </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'> 1742 . Urban Poverty in Nineteenth Century Italy : Florence, Turin, Rome, 1810-1812<br> </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>Woolf, S. , University of Essex. Department of History</h5> <h3>Principal Investigators:</h3> <h5>Woolf, S. , University of Essex. Department of History</h5> <h5>Goodman, J. , University of Essex. Department of History</h5> <H3>Sponsor:</H3><H5> Economic and Social Research Council<br> </H5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>The main purpose of the study was to investigate the nature of poverty and its demographic dimensions in Florence, Turin and Rome about the year 1810. The data were collected from petitions made by households seeking poor relief from the respective urban authorities.</h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5>Variables<br> 1. Economic<br> For individuals within the household, there is information on occupation, work status, salary and condition of work.<br> 2. Demographic<br> For individuals, information on age, sex and marital status, relationship to head of household. For households, information on size of houshold and domicility.<br> 3. Institutional<br> For housholds, information on the form of charity requested and granted.<br> The most complete information on all variables is for Florence: less complete data are from Rome, the Jewish Ghetto of Rome and Turin.<br> <br> Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.<br> <br></h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'> Time Period Covered:</i> 1810 - 1812 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> Italy <br><i class='myclass'>Geography: </i> Florence; Rome; Turin <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> Town <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Families/households; Groups <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Numeric data; Individual (micro) level </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> Subnational <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Petitioners for poor relief in Florence, 1810-1812, (one quarter of the city), the Jewish Ghetto of Rome, a group of seven parishes in Rome, and the city of Turin, 1810 </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> Florence 1219 (obtained) households<br> Florence 4498 (obtained) individuals<br> Rome 474 (obtained) households<br> Rome 1345 (obtained) individuals<br> Rome Ghetto 463 (obtained) households<br> Rome Ghetto 1422 (obtained) individuals<br> Turin 142 (obtained) households<br> Turin 442 (obtained) individuals <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Compilation or synthesis of existing material <br><i class='myclass'>Data Sources: </i> The data were collected from petitions made by households seeking poor relief from urban authorities in Florence, Turin and Rome; from the following archives: Florence, Archivio di Stato, Congregazione di San Giovanni Battista; Turin, Archivio Municipale (Turin), Carte Francesi; Rome, Archives Nationales (Paris). </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> 1 January 1982<br></h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5> No information recorded</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>19 December 2011</h5> </body></html>