KEY TO VARIABLES CONTAINED IN DATA SET “PARFINAL.TAB”

CASEID: Case identification number (unique to each MP) DISTRICT: District being represented 1=Bedford County 2=Bedford 3=Berkshire 4=Abingdon 5=Reading 6=Wallingford 7=Windsor 8=Buckingham County 9=Amersham 10=Aylesbury 11=Buckingham 12=Wycombe 13=Marlow 14=Wendover 15=Cambridge County 16=Cambridge 17=Cambridge University 18=Cheshire 19=Chester 20=Macclesfield 21=Stockport 22= 23= 24=Bossiney 25= 26= 27= 28=Grampound 29=Helstone 30=Launceston 31= 32=East 33=West Looe 34= 35=Mitchell 36=Newport 37=Penryn 38=St. Germans 39=St. Ives 40=St. Mawes 41=St. Michael 42=-Essay 43=Tregony 44= 45=Cumberland 46=Carlisle City 47=Cockermouth 48=Whitehaven 49=Derby County 50=Derby 51=Devon County 52=Ashburton 53=Barnstaple 54=Beeralston 55=Dartmouth 56=Devonport 57=Exeter City 58=Honiton 59=Okehampton 60=Plymouth 61=Plympton Earle 62=Tavistock 63=Tiverton 64=Totnes 65=Dorset County 66=Bridgport 67=Corfe Castle 68=Dorchester 69=Lyme Regis 70=Poole 71=Shaftesbury 72=Wareham 73=Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 74=Durham County 75=Durham City 76=Gateshead 77=South Shields 78=Sunderland 79=Essex 80=Colchester 81=Harwich 82=Maldon 83=Gloucester County 84=Bristol City 85=Cheltenham 86=Cirenchester 87=Gloucester City 88=Stroud 89=Tewkesbury 90=Hampshire including Isle of Wight 91=Andover 92=Christchurch 93=Lymington 94=Newport/Isle of Wight 95=Newtown/Isle of Wight 96=Petersfield 97=Portsmouth 98=Southhampton 99=Stockbridge 100=Whitchurch 101=Winchester City 102=Yarmouth/Isle of Wight 103=Hereford County 104=Hereford City 105=Leominster 106=Weobley 107=Hertford County 108=Hertford 109=St. Albans 110=Huntingdon County 111=Huntingdon 112=Kent 113=Canterbury City 114=Chatham 115=Dover 116=Greenwich 117=Hythe 118=Maidstone 119=New Romney 120=Queenborough 121=Rochester 122=Sandwich 123=Lancashire 124=Ashton-under-Lyne 125=Blackburn 126=Bolton 127=Bury 128=Clitheroe 129=Lancaster 130=Liverpool 131=Manchester 132=Newton 133=Oldham 134=Preston 135=Rochdale 136=Salford 137=Warrington 138=Wigan 139=Leicester County 140=Leicester 141=Lincoln County 142=Boston 143=Grantham 144=Great Grimsby 145=Lincoln City 146=Stamford 147=Middlesex 148=Finsbury 149=London City 150=Marylebone 151=Tower Hamlets 152=Westminster City 153=Monmouth County 154=Monmouth 155=Norfolk 156=Castle Rising 157=King's Lynn 158=Norwich 159=Thetford 160=Yarmouth 161=Northhampton County 162=Brackley 163=Higham Ferrers 164=Northhampton 165=Peterborough 166=Northumberland 167=Berwick-upon-Tweed 168=Morpeth 169=Newcastle-upon-Tyne 170=Tynemouth 171=Nottingham County 172=East Retford 173=Newark-upon-Trent 174=Nottingham 175=Oxford County 176=Banbury 177=New Woodstock 178=Oxford City 179=Oxford University 180=Rutland 181=Shropshire 182=Bishops Castle 183=Bridgnorth 184=Ludlow 185=Much Wenlock 186=Shrewsbury 187=Somerset 188=Bath City 189=Bridgwater 190=Frome 191=Ilchester 192=Milbourne Port 193=Minehead 194=Taunton 195=Wells City 196=Stafford County 197=Lichfield 198=Newcastle 199=Stafford 200=Stoke-upon-Trent 201=Tamworth 202=Walsall 203=Wolverhampton 204=Suffolk 205=Aldeburgh 206=Bury St. Edmunds 207=Dunwich 208=Eye 209=Ipswich 210=Orford 211=Sudbury 212=Surrey 213=Bletchingley 214=Gatton 215=Guildford 216=Haslemer 217=Lambeth 218=Reigate 219=Southwark 220=Sussex 221=Arundel 222=Bramber 223=Brighton 224=Chichester 225=East Grinstead 226=Hastings 227=Horsham 228=Lewes 229=Midhurst 230=New Shoreham 231=Rye 232=Seaford 233=Steyning 234=Winchelsea 235=Warwick County 236=Birmingham 237=Coventry City 238=Warwick 239= --- 240=Westmorland 241=Appleby 242=Kendal 243=Wiltshire 244=Calne 245=Chippenham 246=Cricklade 247=Devizes 248=Downton 249=Great Bedwin 250=Heytesbury 251=Hindon 252=Ludgershall 253=Malmesbury 254=Marlborough 255=Old Sarum 256=Salisbury 257=Westbury 258=Wilton 259=Wooton Basset 260=Worcestershire 261=Bewdley 262=Droitwich 263=Dudley 264=Evesham 265=Kidderminster 266=Worcester 267=York County 268=Aldborough 269=Beverley 270=Boroughbridge 271=Bradford 272=Halifax 273=Hedon 274=Huddersfield 275=Kingston-upon-Hull 276=Knaresborough 277=Leeds 278=Malton 279=Northallerton 280=Pontefract 281=Richmond 282=Ripon 283=Scarborough 284=Sheffield 285=Thirsk 286=Wakefield 287=Whitby 288=York DISTYPE: Type of district (0=County, 1=Borough) REFCHNG: Effect of the 1832 Reform Act on electoral constituencies (1=Abolished representation; 2=Continued representation, with number of seats reduced; 3=Continued representation, with no change in seats; 4=Continued representation, with number of seats increased; 5=Newly created representation) DIV1VOTE: Mr. W. Whitmore's motion for consideration of free trade in corn (April 18, 1826): ayes = 81; noes = 250. (Division included only the minority M.P.'s and of these, only 65 could be identified by district.) DIV2VOTE: Mr. Hume's motion for a committee on the Corn Laws (March 6, 1834). This was the first motion on the Corn Laws to be brought forth in the reformed Parliament: ayes = 155; noes = 312. (Two M.P.'s who voted "no" could not be identified by district.) DIV3VOTE: Mr. Villier's motion to abolish all the duties on corn (February 24, 1842): ayes = 90; noes = 393. (Two M.P.'s who voted "no" could not be identified by district.) DIV4VOTE: Mr. P. Mile's amendment to delay the House going into committee to consider the Corn Laws by six months (thus forcing a vote on Peel's motion that the House immediately resolve itself into a committee of the whole, i.e., Peel's first reading of the Corn Law Repeal) (February 27, 1846): ayes = 337; noes = 240. (One M.P. who voted "aye" could not be identified by district.) DIV6VOTE: Mr. Peel's motion to repeal the Corn Laws, third reading (May 15, 1846): ayes = 327; noes = 229. (All M.P.'s identified by district.) DIV7VOTE: Mr Villier's amendment calling for total and immediate repeal of the Corn Laws (versus the gradualist nature of Peel's motion, with complete abolition of duties in 1849) (March 6, 1846). The House divided on the question that Peel's motion retain the 1849 date: ayes = 265; noes = 78. (Ayes coded as a vote for protection, and noes coded as a vote for free trade. Districts of two M.P.'s were questionable but were coded according to my best guess estimate.) DCDIST: Deane and Cole's district typology (Deane, P. and Cole, W.A., British Economic Growth, 1688 - 1959, 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962): 1=agricultural, 2=mixed, 3=industrial/commercial. REGIONS: Region of Britain being represented (1=County East Anglia, 2=County Southwest, 3=County Southeast, 4=County Midlands, 5=County Wales, 6=County Northeast, 7=County Northwest, 8=Borough East Anglia, 9=Borough Southwest, 10=Borough Southeast, 11=Borough Midlands, 12=Borough Wales, 13=Borough Northeast, 14=Borough Northwest) DIV1PID: Party affiliation of M.P.'s for 1826 division [1=Protectionist (P), 2=Conservative (C), 3=Liberal- Conservative (LC), 4=Liberal or Whig (L)] DIV2PID: Party affiliation of M.P.'s for 1834 division [1=Protectionist (P), 2=Conservative (C), 3=Liberal- Conservative (LC), 4=Liberal or Whig (L)] DIV3PID: Party affiliation of M.P.'s for 1842 division [1=Protectionist (P), 2=Conservative (C), 3=Liberal- Conservative (LC), 4=Liberal or Whig (L)] DIV4PID: Party affiliation of M.P.'s for 1846a division [1=Protectionist (P), 2=Conservative (C), 3=Liberal- Conservative (LC), 4=Liberal or Whig (L)] DIV6PID: Party affiliation of M.P.'s for 1846b division [1=Protectionist (P), 2=Conservative (C), 3=Liberal- Conservative (LC), 4=Liberal or Whig (L)] DIV7PID: Party affiliation of M.P.'s for 1846c division [1=Protectionist (P), 2=Conservative (C), 3=Liberal- Conservative (LC), 4=Liberal or Whig (L)] DIVS13CO: Diversification scores for the 1830 death duty register sample, averaged for each county (includes government securities as numerator of the second term of the diversification index). (See Schonhardt-Bailey, C., "Specific Factors, Capital Markets, Portfolio Diversification, and Free Trade: Domestic Determinants of the Repeal of the Corn Laws", World Politics, vol. 43, no. 4, July 1991). DIVS15CO: Diversification scores for the 1850 death duty register sample, averaged for each county (includes government securities as numerator of the second term of the diversification index). (See Schonhardt-Bailey, C., "Specific Factors") DIVS23CO: Diversification scores for the 1830 death duty register sample, averaged for each county DIVS25CO: Diversification scores for the 1850 death duty register sample, averaged for each county DISTPREF: Predicted trade preference, based upon constituency district economic composition in 1831-32 NEWA114: Income accruing from rural land ownership in the 1814 income tax schedules (from Schedule A) 1 NEWA214: Income accruing from urban house property ownership in the 1814 income tax schedules (from Schedule A) (See Note 1) NEWB14: Profits from the occupation of lands, houses, tenements --- in short, profits from farming --- in the 1814 income tax schedules (Schedule B) (See Note 1) NEWD14: Profits from trade or manufacturing, business, profession, employment, or vocation, and miscellaneous items, such as foreign securities and possessions in the 1814 income tax schedules (Schedule D) (See Note 1) NEWE14: Annuities, pensions, and stipends paid to holders of public office in the 1814 income tax schedules (Schedule E) (See Note 1) NEWA156: Income accruing from rural land ownership in the 1856 income tax schedules (from Schedule A) (See Note 1) NEWA256: Income accruing from urban house property ownership in the 1856 income tax schedules (from Schedule A) (See Note 1) NEWB56: Profits from the occupation of lands, houses, tenements --- in short, profits from farming --- in the 1856 income tax (Schedule B) (See Note 1) NEWD56: Profits from trade or manufacturing, business, profession, employment, or vocation, and miscellaneous items, such as foreign securities and possessions in the 1856 income tax schedules (Schedule D) (See Note 1) NEWE56: Annuities, pensions, and stipends paid to holders of public office in the 1856 income tax schedules (Schedule E) (See Note 1) TXDIVS14: Borough and county aggregate diversification scores for the 1814 income tax returns sample. TXDIVS56: Borough and county aggregate diversification scores for the 1856 income tax returns sample. TXDVDIFF: Difference between TXDIVS56 and TXDIVS14 DIVSDIF2: Difference between DIVS25CO and DIVS23CO DIVSDIFF: Difference between DIVS15CO and DIVS13CO PID1DUMY: Party affiliation of M.P.'s, dichotomous, for 1826 [1=Liberal or Whig; 0=Other (Liberal- Conservative, Protectionist, or Conservative)] PID2DUMY: Party affiliation of M.P.'s, dichotomous, for 1834 [1=Liberal or Whig; 0=Other (Liberal- Conservative, Protectionist, or Conservative)] PID3DUMY: Party affiliation of M.P.'s, dichotomous, for 1842 [1=Liberal or Whig; 0=Other (Liberal- Conservative, Protectionist, or Conservative)] PID4DUMY: Party affiliation of M.P.'s, dichotomous, for 1846a [1=Liberal or Whig; 0=Other (Liberal- Conservative, Protectionist, or Conservative)] PID6DUMY: Party affiliation of M.P.'s, dichotomous, for 1846b [1=Liberal or Whig; 0=Other (Liberal- Conservative, Protectionist, or Conservative)] PID7DUMY: Party affiliation of M.P.'s, dichotomous, for 1846c [1=Liberal or Whig; 0=Other (Liberal- Conservative, Protectionist, or Conservative)]

1 "New" denotes data adjustments described in pp. 182-184 of Schonhardt-Bailey, C. (1991) "Lessons in Lobbying for Free Trade in 19th- Century Britain: To Concentrate or Not", American Political Science Review, vol. 85, no. 1.