Cliometric Figures Repository
Historical data,
Historical data,
made verifiable.
Economic series and individual observations collected and normalized from publicly accessible sources — with geography, period, units and provenance.
time coverage
1086
2016
Actual span of the published datasets
22sources
25datasets
91,934rows in tables
88measured columns
8subject areas
Catalog sections
Data already published
Each card leads to tables, their structure and the sources used.
Geography
Where data is available
Great Britain 7East India Company home establishment, London, England 3Britain 2England 2St Luke Chelsea parish, Middlesex/London, England 2St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London, England 2Argentina 1Australia 1Austria-Hungary 1Bakewell 1Belgium 1Brazil 1British East Africa (Kenya, Uganda) 1British Malaya 1Canada 1Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1China 1Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) 1
And 32 more geographic labels within international tables.
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Largest tables
Labor and wages
St Martin in the Fields workhouse episodes, 1770–1819
52,807 rows
· 9 columnsLong-run macroeconomic series
Bank of England Millennium annual economic series
22,487 rows
· 6 columnsLabor and wages
East India Company employees: annual roster records, 1760–1819
11,736 rows
· 10 columnsLabor and wages
St Luke Chelsea workhouse admissions, exits and recorded destinations, 1782–1799
2,185 rows
· 10 columnsLabor and wages
Marine Society open sample of recruit records, 1770–1804
1,365 rows
· 15 columns
Traceable provenance
CFR publishes historical economic data collected and normalized from publicly accessible sources. References to the underlying sources are provided for each dataset. Users are responsible for evaluating the data’s suitability and for its interpretation and use.