Concentration and Fragmentation

Rodger, Richard

doi:10.1177/009614428801400202

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“…The limited published tables until now remained the only source for firm and farm size data available. Historians have used the published tables as the basis of studies on industry (Clapham 1938;Rodger 1988) and farming. However, the generally negative assessment of these tables has tended to put off subsequent analysts.…”

Section: The Uk Population Census and Businessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While some sectors were rather widely distributed, many sectors with the largest firms were highly concentrated in some parts of the country. This has been previously understood to be mainly in textiles, iron and steel, coal mining, and shipbuilding (Clapham 1938;Rodger 1988). Now it is clear that large firms were more generally characteristic of the main urban areas, the ports, and London, as well as the better recognized industrial centers in the north and Midlands.…”

Section: Implications and Significancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This paper evaluates the quality of coverage by the digital records in I-CeM data and BBCE for the specific 1851-81 census questions to business proprietors on the size of their workforce. The GRO's few published tables based on the responses to these questions have previously been used in the study of social, family and demographic change (Anderson 1988), agricultural history (Grigg 1987;Lawton and Pooley 1992;Mills 1999;Shaw-Taylor 2012), and business sector firm size development (Clapham 1938;Rodger 1988). Now the full digital records allow all years and individual records to be analyzed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The British census asked employers to record their workforce numbers. The responses to this instruction provide a unique resource on firm size. While the responses were digitized and included in the Individual Census Microdata (I-CeM) deposit, their format limits their utility. A further data deposit, the British Business Census of Entrepreneurs (BBCE), overcomes I-CeM's deficiencies by infilling data gaps and parsing employer and workforce data into separate fields. This paper evaluates the coverage in I-CeM and BBCE data for this specific census question, and compares these with the published census analysis of the same data. The results prove the benefits of the BBCE data over I-CeM on the subject of firm size, and demonstrate the need for caution in using the published tables.

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Section: The Uk Population Census and Businessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implications and Significancementioning

confidence: 99%