Investors and Members of Parliament in England, 1575-1630 (ICPSR 55)

Version Date: Aug 17, 2011

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Principal Investigator(s):
Theodore K. Rabb

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00055.v2

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Summary

This data collection contains individual-level biographical information for British members of Parliament and social and economic data pertaining to British investment and economic expansion in the period 1575-1630. The data provide information on name, social class, and date of knighthood for each member of British Parliament for the period. Also included are dates of the thirteen sessions of Parliament, and the names of the trading companies and company directors or governors.

Citation

Rabb, Theodore K. Investors and Members of Parliament in England, 1575-1630  . Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00055.v2

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Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1575 -- 1630

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 the 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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Universe

Members of the British Parliament and selected British trading companies in the period 1575-1630.

Data Source

British parliamentary sources and British trading company records

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Original Release Date

1984-05-11

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:

  • Rabb, Theodore K. Investors and Members of Parliament in England, 1575-1630 . ICPSR00055-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-08-17. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00055.v2

2011-08-17 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

1984-05-11 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:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.

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