Census of the Population 1851 - IPUMS Subset

United Kingdom [Great Britain], 1851

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GBR_1851_PHC-GBR_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Secretary of State, IPUMS

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Sep 03, 2025

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Cluster code number (UK1851C_NEWHSIND)

Data file: GBR1851_PHC-GBR-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 314

End: 314

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	indicates the start of a second or subsequent CEB within a cluster
2	indicates that enumerator thought he had identified a new house according to guidelines
3	indicates that enumerator recorded or should have recorded a new household within the same house
4	indicates a new household within an institution
5	indicates creation of a new dummy household for one or other of the groups of people identified by the enumerator as living in barns, sheds, boats, tents etc.
6	indicates a continuation of the previous household
9	Unclassifiable

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

This variable lists the cluster code number.

These transcripts are from the 2% sample of the British 1851 census, transcribed by a team under Professor Michael Anderson at Edinburgh. This variable was created by Professor Michael Anderson. For the first household of each of his files this field contains the cluster code number. For each household thereafter the field contains a number between 1 and 6 that indicates one or other of the different combinations of ways in which the enumerators used schedule numbers, addresses, and length lines to indicate new houses or new households within houses.

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United Kingdom 1851 (2%) [Great Britain]: All households

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