Social History of the Welsh Language : Evidence of the 1891 Census; Project 2

<p>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</p>The aims of the project were as follows :<br> to collect and process information from the data relating to the Welsh language in the 1891 Census Enumerators' Returns in 20 selected communities in Wales;<br> to create computer-readable data files on the language ability of around 90,000 individuals, i.e. five per cent of the population;<br> to undertake a quantitative analysis of the socio-economic structure of Welsh/English language ability on the basis of the above data;<br> to develop a classification of occupations in order to explore links between economic activity and the process of language change;<br> to write a volume on the basis of the above in order to deepen our socio-cultural understanding of a society in which nearly a million people spoke Welsh and over half a million were monoglot Welsh.<B>Main Topics</B>:<br> The dataset contains 35 files, each of which consists of a 100 per cent sample of the enumeration district in twenty communities selected from the 178 sub-registration districts in Wales, i.e. 90,000 individuals or five per cent of the total population of wales in 1891. Two specific datafiles were created for each district.<br> Variables in the first file identify : the individual person, enumeration district, schedule number, first name, surname, relation to head of household, marital status, gender, age, occupation, employment status, occupation code, country/county of birth, birthplace and language spoken.<br> Variables in the second file identify : the enumeration district, schedule number, whether a Welsh-language schedule was used, number of persons in the household, number of rooms and address