British House of Commons Roll Call Data, 1841-1847 (ICPSR 7384)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
William Osgood Aydelotte

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07384.v1

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Summary

This study investigated the socioeconomic composition of the 1841-1847 British House of Commons and the political behavior of the men who sat in it. For each member of parliament, data were collected on personal background, constituency, political career, social position, and professional and business interests. The information on political behavior includes party affiliation, roll call responses in 186 individual parliamentary votes (called "divisions"), and the parliament members' ranking on 24 cumulative scales derived from voting data to allow generalizations about voting patterns.

Citation

Aydelotte, William Osgood. British House of Commons Roll Call Data, 1841-1847. [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07384.v1

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Time Period(s)

1841 -- 1847

Date of Collection

1954

Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

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Sample

Although only 658 members of parliament could sit in the House of Commons at one time (656 after the disenfranchisement of Sudbury in 1844), due to turnover the total number of men who sat between 1841-1847 was 815.

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Members of the British House of Commons in the period 1841-1847.

Data Source

DOD'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION, HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, the published division lists of the House of Commons, articles from the printed press, and other published materials.

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Original Release Date

1984-05-03

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:
  • Aydelotte, William Osgood. British House of Commons Roll Call Data, 1841-1847. ICPSR07384-v1. [distributor], 2020-01-22. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07384.v1

1984-05-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Standardized missing values.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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