Dataset

Data set provides the cut-offs for each Registration District code in England and Wales 1851–1881 for a logit estimate using a 0.25 threshold, as described in Working Paper 9, and published in Agricultural History Review 2019, Montebruno et al. Also provided are the alpha and beta coefficients of the logit estimator. Reference for WP9: Bennett, Robert, J., Montebruno, Piero, Smith, Harry, and van Lieshout, Carry (2018) Reconstructing entrepreneur and business numbers for censuses 1851-81. Working Paper 9: ESRC project ES/M010953: ‘Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses’, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography and Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Reference for Agri. Hist. Rev. article: Montebruno, P., Bennett, R.J., van Lieshout, C., Smith, H. and Satchell, M., 2019. Shifts in agrarian entrepreneurship in mid-Victorian England and Wales. Agricultural History Review 67 (1): 71–108.

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