The Occupational Structure of England and Wales: the 1939 National Register

Matteo Calabrese; Robin Philips; Robert Keenan; Bas van Leeuwen

doi:10.1163/24523666-bja10026

The Occupational Structure of England and Wales: the 1939 National Register

Matteo Calabrese, Robin Philips, Robert Keenan, Bas van Leeuwen

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Abstract

A gap in the census surveys for England and Wales between 1921 and 1951 hinders the analysis of their labour structure for the interwar years. The present article uses a dataset containing occupational titles from the National Register – a census-like enumeration of 1939, recently digitised by the genealogy service ‘Find My Past’ – which was previously assigned numerical codes (the pst system). The study expands the existing data analysis on the occupational structure of England and Wales by introducing three further variables: the gender of the surveyed individuals, their age, and the shares of the inactive population per gender and age groups.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-17
Journal	Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10026
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

England and Wales
1939 Register
region
population
occupation

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