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Description & Citation

Description & Citation--Study No. 8422

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:8422
 
Title:Kent's Directories of Businesses in London, 1759-1828
 
Principal Investigator(s):Charles Tilly
 
Bibliographic Citation:Tilly, Charles. KENT'S DIRECTORIES OF BUSINESSES IN LONDON, 1759-1828 [Computer file]. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Research on Social Organization [producer], 1983. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1985.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:Published annually from 1732 until 1828, Kent's Directories provide the names, descriptions, and addresses of businesses in London. This collection is a transcription of the directories beginning with the 1759 edition. In addition to the name, type of business, and street address for each entry, the datasets contain the year of the listing, a "mobility code" indicating presence in the previous year's directory, and a set of geographical grid coordinates accurate to 100 meters. The directories are presented in three data files.
 
Subject Term(s):businesses, retail industry
 
Geographic Coverage:England, Great Britain, London, Global
 
Time Period:1759 - 1828
 
Date(s) of Collection:June 1980 - June 1983
 
Universe:Businesses included in Kent's Directories from 1759-1828.
 
Data Type:administrative records data
 

Methodology

Data Source:Kent's Directories, 1759-1828
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1985-12-20
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 1992-02-16.
 
  2006-01-18 - File CB8422.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Alphabetical Listing of Street Addresses
  • DS2: Alphabetical Listing of Businesses by Their Description
  • DS3: Full Transcription of Kent's Publications
 

 

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