3758 - New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-31 (2nd 
Edition)



Using the Data
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Users may receive the data as dBase files or as tab delimited 
ASCII files. The first row of the tab delimited ASCII files 
contains field names. Textual data values are not indicated by 
any form of quotes (double or single). The tab delimited ASCII 
files can be easily imported into a modern database system such 
as Microsoft Access.



Dataset
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Listed below are notes on the contents of the data set


Tab delimited ASCII data
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Users who have received the data set in tab delimited ASCII 
format will find TWO versions of table mem500a have been 
included: mem500a.tab, and mem500a.txt. The file mem500a.tab is a 
tab delimited ASCII file which can be imported into a spreadsheet 
or database, mem500a.txt is an ASCII file which cannot be 
imported directly into a spreadsheet or database. If mem500a.tab 
does not imported properly (memo fields may be truncated) then 
mem500a.txt can be used to review the same information in a 
different format (see below)

mem500a.txt: This file is a space delimited ASCII file, with 
multi-line records.

Each memo field entry begins with one line identifying the entry. 
This line contains a six character household number, the name of 
the field followed by a space, and the number of lines in the 
memo field (5 characters width, right justified). Following the 
identifying line, there are the requisite lines of text. Each 
line is maximum 75 characters in length, may contain spaces and 
is not delimited by any form of quotes. 

Example:
011994 REMA_M     4
A line of text.
Another line of text.
Some more text.
Yet more text.
011997 REMG_M     1
[And so on.]

The file mem500a.txt contains only ASCII characters 32 to 126 
with the following exceptions:
(a) CRLF, ASCII 13, 10
(b) the pound sign, ASCII 156.


Table HH0500A
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INOS_S contains text representations of monetary amounts - see p5 
of documentation for explanation of format and abbreviations, 
also note the use of "P.W.", probably 'per week'.


Table IVE500A
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The record with IDNO_E = 158094 has an unexpected value of AGEY_E 
= "nurse".



Hamish James, History Data Service, 22/03/99



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This study has been reprocessed into SPSS, Stata and tab-delimited formats in April 2016.
The userguide codebook contains codes/values for each variable.


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