The occupational structure of England and Wales: The 1939 national Register social and economic history

Matteo Calabrese; Robin Philips; Robert Keenan; Bas van Leeuwen

doi:10.1163/24523666-bja10026

The occupational structure of England and Wales: The 1939 national Register social and economic history

Matteo Calabrese^*, Robin Philips, Robert Keenan, Bas van Leeuwen

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Abstract

A gap in the census surveys for England and Wales between 1921 and 1951 hinders the analysis of their labour structure for the interwar years. The present article uses a dataset containing occupational titles from the National Register – a census-like enumeration of 1939, recently digitised by the genealogy service ‘Find My Past’ – which was previously assigned numerical codes (the pst system). The study expands the existing data analysis on the occupational structure of England and Wales by introducing three further variables: the gender of the surveyed individuals, their age, and the shares of the inactive population per gender and age groups.

Original language	English
Number of pages	17
Journal	Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Volume	36
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10026
Publication status	Published - 17 Oct 2022

Keywords

Census data
Coding
England
Interwar
Large dataset
National Register 1939
Occupational structure
Pst
Wales

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