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Classification of towns in 1891 using factor analysis


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Working Paper

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Radicic, D 

Abstract

This paper discusses how factor analysis can be used to classify the towns and urban areas in England and Wales of over 10,000 population using the occupational structure of their populations derived from census data for 1851-1911. The urban classification derives from working paper 6. This paper gives a classification by occupation for1891 as a pilot year for all occupied population, and by gender, as well as by employment status as worker, employer or own account self-employed.

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Entrepreneurship, Employers, Self-employment, Small business, Census

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