- Contains the full 2% extract of the 1851 census of the UK as prepared by the ESRC, plus a number of additional data files from 19th century censuses from other contributors.Over 500,000 named individuals in total.
The data tables contain the full set of information recorded in the census: Forenames, Surname, Relationship to head of household, Marital status, Age, Occupation, Place of birth, County/Country of Birth, as well as recording the street address, town and county where the census occurred. Searches can be conducted on individual counties, multiple counties selected by the user, countries, and the whole of the UK. Search parameters can include wild cards for fuzzy searching on one or more of forenames, surname, occupation and place of birth. Searches can include county and country of birth, and can select people from any age range between 0 and 125. Searches use AND logic only, and can be restricted to men or women, and to 1851 or all dates. Search results can be ordered by name, date, census place or place of birth. Searches can be made on the original compressed data files, or on uncompressed subsets of the data saved to disk. For example you could save a subset of all the records in Yorkshire. Searches on subsets are very much faster than new searches on the original data. Search results can be viewed in tables, graphs and on maps. Colour frequency maps can be plotted for county of birth, absolute numbers by county of census, and relative numbers by county of census (Relative to each 1000 people counted in that county.) Graphs can be drawn of results by age frequency (bar chart), by country of birth (pie chart) and by gender (pie chart). All graphs can be plotted in 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional form. Age frequency graphs are plotted in 1, 5 or 10 year bands with the option to see sex ratios and absolute numbers at any point on the graph. Search results are viewed on a scrolling grid with Find facilities on any column. Any individual in the search results can be selected in this grid and then viewed in a detailed 'as enumerated' window which shows all other residents at that address as well as their full personal details. All graphs and charts can be printed directly or saved to file as Windows bitmaps. Result sets of up to 500 individuals can be printed directly from the results grid. Single households can be printed from the 'as enumerated' window. |
