Male and Female Wages and Employment from English Farm Accounts, 1740-1850 (ICPSR 20323)

Version Date: Nov 9, 2007

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Principal Investigator(s):
Joyce Burnette, Wabash College

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20323.v1

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Summary

This study is based on a nonrandom sample of manuscript farm wage accounts. It contains information on the farm labor force (wages and employment by gender) and the location of the farm. The records contain information on all farm laborers working at the farm, but no information on any family labor or farm servants who may or may not have been employed. First names were used to categorize workers as male or female. Complete employment records for a full year were used to calculate the total number of days worked in one year by male and female laborers. Wages are the median wages paid by gender and season.

Citation

Burnette, Joyce. Male and Female Wages and Employment from English Farm Accounts, 1740-1850. [distributor], 2007-11-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20323.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation (0123954), American Philosophical Society

Subject Terms

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Time Period(s)

1740 -- 1850

Date of Collection

1992 -- 2006

Data Collection Notes

  1. (1) Part 1, Wages, and Part 2, Employment, contain the same unique farm identifier (farm no). Observations with the same farm number and same date refer to the same wage accounts, so the Wages and Employment datasets could be linked, though some observations would be lost. (2) Employment is the total number of days worked in a full year, but the year does not always run from January 1 to December 31. A number of accounts run from one Michaelmas (Sept. 29) to the next, in which case the year given is the calendar year during which most of the fiscal year falls. (3) Wages are reported for males and female in summer and winter. Some wage observations (as indicated by the variable "NotComputed") were based on isolated wage observations, but most (84 percent) were based on a full year of wage accounts.

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Universe

English farms, 1740-1850

Unit(s) of Observation

farm-year

Data Source

A non-random sample of farm account books surviving in English archives.

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Original Release Date

2007-11-09

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Burnette, Joyce. MALE AND FEMALE WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT FROM ENGLISH FARM ACCOUNTS, 1740-1850. ICPSR20323-v1. Crawfordsville, IN: Joyce Burnette, Wabash College [producer], 2007. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-11-09. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20323.v1
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