Extract from "The Cheshire Township of Kelsall 1841-1891": An Example of Demographic Change

Social Mobility

Given the absence of suitable interval data, such as known income or wealth of all those enumerated, social scale analysis was undertaken using the ordinal method described by Armstrong (1972) which was subjectively applied to the inhabitants of Kelsall using the available Post Office Directories for triangulation. Table 8 summarises the overall findings for the period under review and demonstrates the impact of commerce in Class II and the reductions in labour of Classes IV and V. Class IV's overall total is buoyed by the inclusion of domestic servants.

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Modified charts for Socio Economic Grouping can be seen in the Appendices

Copyright D G Dickson 1998