Wealth, Household Expenditure, and Consumer Goods in Preindustrial England and America, 1550-1800 (ICPSR 9404)

Published: Jan 12, 2006

Principal Investigator(s):
Carole Shammas

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09404.v1

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Project Description

Summary

These data explore changes in English and American consumption between 1550 and 1800. The probate inventories (Parts 1-11) include information about personal wealth, household production, and the possession of consumer durables and semi-durables. The household survey for England circa 1790 (Part 12) contains dietary information as well as information about other household expenditures. The wills from England and America (Part 13) are a source for learning about the kinds of goods people obtained from their families through inheritance. Finally, information pertaining to the distribution network in eighteenth century England is contained in the aggregate county-level data on the shop and peddler's tax (Part 13).

Citation

Shammas, Carole. Wealth, Household Expenditure, and Consumer Goods in Preindustrial England and America, 1550-1800 . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09404.v1

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Subject Terms

consumer assets consumption diet durable goods eighteenth century historical data households inheritance nineteenth century seventeenth century sixteenth century taxes wealth

Geographic Coverage

United States England Global

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1550 -- 1800

Date of Collection

1975 -- 1987

Methodology

Data Source

(1) County probate records from England and the United States, (2) Havinden, Michael Ashley, ed. HOUSEHOLD AND FARM INVENTORIES IN OXFORDSHIRE 1550-1590, (3) Eden, Frederic Morton. THE STATE OF THE POOR (3 volumes), (4) Davies, David. LABOURERS IN HUSBANDRY, and 5) other printed data sources

Data Type(s)

event/transaction data, and aggregate data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1990-12-04

Version Date

2006-01-12

Version History

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 15 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
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