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Description & Citation--Study No. 49

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

49

Title:

Analysis of Arrests in Paris, June 1848

Principal Investigator(s):

Tilly, Charles

Unknown

Bibliographic Citation:

Tilly, Charles, and Unknown. Analysis of Arrests in Paris, June 1848. ICPSR00049-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00049.v1

Scope of Study

Summary:

This data collection contains three files pertaining to the June 1848 insurrection in Paris and to people charged with or arrested for participation in the insurrection. The data files contain social, economic, and demographic information. Information is provided on the results of the judicial proceedings against the individual after arrest, as well as demographic characteristics of the individual, such as occupation, place of birth, sex, age, marital status, number of children, and place of residence (Part 1), the number of inhabitants arrested in connection with the rebellion, the labor force, and social characteristics of the 12 zones (arrondisements) (Part 2), and demographic and arrest information with a focus on the furnished apartments, clubs, and popular societies within the 48 quartiers (districts) existing in Paris in 1848 (Part 3).

Subject Terms:

arrests, arrondissements, civil disorders, demographic characteristics, labor force, nineteenth century, population density, prosecution, riots, trial procedures, violence

Geographic Coverage:

France, Global, Paris

Time Period:
  • 1848

Universe:

A total of 11,616 participants arrested in the June 1848 insurrection in Paris, France.

Data Types:

event/transaction data, survey data

Methodology

Data Source:

(1) LISTE GENERALE EN ORDER ALPHABETIQUE DES INCULPES DE JUIN 1848, (2) Pouthas, Charles H. LA POPULATION FRANCAISE PENDANT LA PREMIERE MOTIE DU XIXE SIECLES. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France, 1956, (3) the Chamber of Commerce Survey of Paris in 1848, and (4) the 1856 French Census

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive 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, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

1984-05-03

Version History:

  • 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 4 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

  • 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.

Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Individual-Level Data
  • DS2: Arrondissement-Level Data
  • DS3: Quartier-Level Data