Datasets : Candidates for the UK House of Commons, 1950-1970, by Party and Occupation

Uploaded By: pick	Created at: Thursday October 25, 1:43 AM
Data Source: Original dataset extracted from the Times House of Commons series
Description: These figures are extracted from a database being developed by Jens Hainmueller and Andy Eggers, graduate students in Government at Harvard University. All of the data is extracted from the constituency-by-constituency accounts of parliamentary elections provided by the Times House of Commons series. The dataset is under development and thus we make no promises about accuracy, but we do ask for attribution if you use the data for something. Note that some candidates have more than one occupation and thus are counted more than once in this dataset.

	Party	Occupation	Candidates	Campaigns	Mean Year of Birth	Median Year of Birth	Mean Margin	Median Margin	Proportion Elected	Campaigns Per Candidate	Proportion Female	Proportion Oxbridge
1	Conservative	Barrister	193	504	1918.26	1919	934.65	1442.5	0.44	2.61	0.05	0.45
2	Conservative	Solicitor	113	199	1918.31	1918	-4369.75	-4893	0.25	1.76	0.04	0.24
3	Conservative	Doctor	25	62	1915.52	1917	849	820.5	0.52	2.48	0.04	0.16
4	Conservative	Civil Servant	17	45	1912.53	1912	5036.04	6537	0.65	2.65	0	0.35
5	Conservative	Local Politician	440	977	1917.38	1918	-1154.5	-1166	0.37	2.22	0.04	0.26
6	Conservative	Teacher	85	207	1918.54	1920.5	-411.81	-641	0.34	2.44	0.07	0.27
7	Conservative	Schoolteacher	30	62	1916.83	1919	-197.9	-2596	0.23	2.07	0.1	0.23
8	Conservative	Business	378	822	1918.59	1920	-1036.63	-981	0.35	2.17	0.03	0.29
9	Conservative	White Collar	242	544	1919.03	1920	-1847.28	-1612	0.35	2.25	0.05	0.27
10	Conservative	Trade Union/Organizer	100	225	1916.34	1918	-900.83	-181	0.36	2.25	0.09	0.32
11	Conservative	Publisher/Journalist	261	578	1917.33	1919	366.81	1456.5	0.4	2.21	0.04	0.38
12	Conservative	Miner	38	90	1915.53	1917.5	-2407.67	-1029	0.39	2.37	0.03	0.21
13	Conservative	None Given	302	736	1915.1	1915	1287.16	2905	0.5	2.44	0.07	0.31
14	Labour	Barrister	152	363	1916.95	1918	127.1	78	0.41	2.39	0.05	0.24
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pick says:

This dataset had some major coding errors and has been replaced by another, which is at http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/data/Sc7NNLsOtha66IEynpTSL2-

Posted Monday January 14 2008, 03:47 PM