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The Baslow Census Coding

The information displayed for each census is constructed from an Excel spreadsheet, with the following fields.
Please note however not all columns will appear in every analysis:

Col A		XX	for temporary use
Col B		CEN	Census Year. 1841 to 1901
Col C		NUM	Consecutive number in the Census return
Col D		SCH	Schedule or House Number in Census return
Col E		SURNAME	Surname
Col F		C-NAME	Forename
Col G		REL	Relationship to head   CODED
Col H		MAR	Marital Status   CODED
Col I		AGE	Age
Col J		SEX	Sex - M or F
Col K		YofB	Year of Birth (Calculated : Census year - Age - 1)
Col L		UNIQUE	"Census + NUM" of first entry (A=1841, B=1851, &c.) Intended for use to cross-reference people from Census to Census
Col M		OCCUPATION	Occupation as is census return. Occasionally abbreviated
Col N		GPR	Occupational Group   CODED
Col O		2nd O	Secondary Occupation   CODED
Col P		BIRTHPLACE	Place of Birth - see note
Col Q		BP	Distance of birth place from Baslow   CODED
Col R		HOUSE NAME	House name if any
Col S		HN	Type of house   CODED
Col T		STREET	Street Name, "Baslow" or "O" or no entry if no information
Col U		STR	Street abbreviated   CODED
Col V		INH	Indication of House 1, or sub houses attached, 2 or 3 etc Note: In the display this is appended to the address: eg.'ROBIN HOOD/2'

NOTES:

1. In 1841, Marital Status and Relationship to Head are guessed where obvious.

2. Not all Columns appear in every analysis. If "CODED" see separate tables.
   1. Specifically, for economy of web space and ease of download SURNAME and C-NAME, and STREET and HOUSE NAME columns have been combined into one column for display online by household.

   2. So far the STR coding is used only in Surname Indexes, but in future, it might be interesting to produce a few graphs from the other codings.

3. There are likely to be inaccuracies in Year of Birth (YofB).
   
   1. The census is taken in late March or early April. Someone aged 0 on 7th April 1881 was probably born in 1880, but might have been born in early 1881. It is coded as 1880

   2. Ages in 1841 are often up to 5 years out. Unreliable Some people don't give their proper age, and an error of 1 for even 2 years is common

4. PLEASE NOTE. There is usually no way of deducing when events happened between censuses.
   Please bear this in mind when reading any comment

OCCUPATIONAL GROUP AND CODING

1a		Farmers, Millers incl Farm Superintendent and Manager also Sub farmers - Farmers sons, Farm bailiff, Journeyman
2a		Agricultural Workers Skilled eg Cow keeper, Shepherd
2b		no specific skills Farm Labourers, Farm Servants, Cow boy
3a		Retail and Traders,
4a		Craftsmen, Skilled Labourers
5a		Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Quarry & Sawmill owners
7a		Professional
7b		Teachers etc incl Auctioneers, Vets, Musician, Inland Revenue, Governess
8a		Clerical, Services, Army. & Including eg Midwife, Cab Driver, Bellman, Toll collector
9		Servants
a		Upper Servants incl Companion, Cook, Ladies Maid, Nurse
b		General Servants
c		Lower Servants, incl Laundress etc
A0		Annuitants, Of Independent Means, Proprietors
A1		Innkeepers, Hoteliers, Beer House, Lodging House Keeper
A2		Labourers excl agricultural
C		Children 14 and under and Scholars of any age
H		Housewife, the senior woman in a house (may often be 2nd occupation)
No		No Occupation implied (but may have a substantial role in a house, farm etc)
P		Paupers
R		Retired All categories of people. Incl Disabled
V		Visitor nb occupation irrelevant, Children not coded as C in 2nd Occ

CODING PLACE OF BIRTH
A		Baslow or Bubnell	E		Sheffield (area present city)
B		Derbyshire under 5 miles	F		Adjoining County
C		Derbyshire under 10 miles	G		England or Wales
D		Derbyshire but over 10 miles	H		Elsewhere

RELATIONSHIP TO HEAD Head   Head Wife   Wife Serv   Servant Nurse   Nurse or governess Appr   Apprentice + Journeyman Son     Daur   Son or Daughter Bro     Sist     Moth     Fath     Uncl     Aunt     Neph     Neic   Nephew or Niece Gson   Grandson Gdaur   Grand daur GG   Great grandson or daur   +S   step   +L   in law   +A   adopted HeadL   Lodger - Head Lodg   Lodger Board   Boarder Visit   Visitor

CODING FOR HOUSES F   Farm H   Hotel or Inn L   Hall or Lodge M   Mill N   Named House P   Post Office V   Vicarage O   Unspecified (reproduced as '-')   CODING FOR MARITAL STATUS M   Married U   Unmarried W   Widowed O   Unspecified (reproduced as '-')   CODING FOR STREETS M   Eastmoor R   Robin Hood (inc Moorside farm Eastmoor)) U   Cupola & Terrace F   Far End (inc Heathy Lea & Park Gate) H   Nether End (inc Cock Hill, Plantation Cott) E   Eaton Hill G   Green Head N   Banks Lane (Gorse Bank) P   Upper End K   Back Lane C   Church Lane D   Bridge End W   New Buildings V   Bridge Foot B   Bubnell O   Unspecified (reproduced as '-')

FAMILIES: The first column in the spreadsheet has been used to arrange families together.

Coding
A single Capital Letter is the first identified member of a family, often a Head; usually in order of
appearance. All other coding is lower case
A wife is her husbands code + a. eg Husband Bc, his wife will be Bca
Children have the father's code + b, c or d etc. e.g. Father Bc, children Bcb, Bcd etc
y indicates some sort of relationship,
Q indicates brother or sister
z (or x) means relationship not known

NB: The above 'FAMILIES' codes are not available in the online version of the database. By definition they will always be "under construction".

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[This information was kindly contributed by David Dalrymple-Smith in February 2004.
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