Creating a typology of parishes in England and Wales: Mining 1881 census data
The paper presents the application of principal component analysis and cluster analysis to historical individual level census data in order to explore social and economic variations and patterns in household structure across mid-Victorian England and Wales. Principal component analysis is used in or...
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| description | The paper presents the application of principal component analysis and cluster analysis to historical individual level census data in order to explore social and economic variations and patterns in household structure across mid-Victorian England and Wales. Principal component analysis is used in order to identify and eliminate unimportant attributes within the data and the aggregation of the remaining attributes. By combining Kaiser’s rule and the Broken-stick model, four principal components are selected for subsequent data modelling. Cluster analysis is used in order to identify associations and structure within the data. A hierarchy of cluster structures is constructed with two, three, four and five clusters in 21-dimensional data space. The main differences between clusters are described in this paper. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-119aca913d5f4cae90b2f61eef2f13ef2025-02-02T13:57:18ZengInternational Institute of Social HistoryHistorical Life Course Studies2352-63432015-09-012Creating a typology of parishes in England and Wales: Mining 1881 census dataKevin SchürerTatiana PenkovaThe paper presents the application of principal component analysis and cluster analysis to historical individual level census data in order to explore social and economic variations and patterns in household structure across mid-Victorian England and Wales. Principal component analysis is used in order to identify and eliminate unimportant attributes within the data and the aggregation of the remaining attributes. By combining Kaiser’s rule and the Broken-stick model, four principal components are selected for subsequent data modelling. Cluster analysis is used in order to identify associations and structure within the data. A hierarchy of cluster structures is constructed with two, three, four and five clusters in 21-dimensional data space. The main differences between clusters are described in this paper.https://test.openjournals.nl/hlcs/article/view/9358Household structuresCensus dataCluster analysisPrincipal component analysis |
| spellingShingle | Kevin Schürer Tatiana Penkova Creating a typology of parishes in England and Wales: Mining 1881 census data Historical Life Course Studies Household structures Census data Cluster analysis Principal component analysis |
| title | Creating a typology of parishes in England and Wales: Mining 1881 census data |
| title_full | Creating a typology of parishes in England and Wales: Mining 1881 census data |
| title_fullStr | Creating a typology of parishes in England and Wales: Mining 1881 census data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Creating a typology of parishes in England and Wales: Mining 1881 census data |
| title_short | Creating a typology of parishes in England and Wales: Mining 1881 census data |
| title_sort | creating a typology of parishes in england and wales mining 1881 census data |
| topic | Household structures Census data Cluster analysis Principal component analysis |
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