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Making a database of statistical appendices to Annual Reports of the Poor Law Commissioners and those of the Poor Law Board and the analysis of the database.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16530240
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Economic history
Research InstitutionFukui National College ofTechnology

Principal Investigator

HIROSHIGE Junshiro  Fukui National College of Technology, General Education, Professor, 一般科目教室, 教授 (70218832)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TSUBOKAWA Takehiro  Fukui National College of Technology, General Education, Professor, 一般科目教室, 教授 (70236941)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2006
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
KeywordsGreat Britain / Poor law / Social security / Social welfare / History
Research Abstract

The target at the first year was construction of the system of making a database of statistical tables. However, there were unexpected difficulties when we made the OCR software correctly recognize the British style figures shown in historical statistical tables. Such difficulties were overcome to some degree by the improvement of the recognition accuracy through the learning function of the OCR software. It can be said that the system was constructed, and the trial run and fine-tuning of the constructed system were succeeded.
In the second year, we concentrated on the improvement of the speed of making of the database. The strategy of making the format beforehand and dropping the numeric data read with OCR was tried, and the speed of making of the database rose to twice or more. However British style figures were hard for the OCR software to handle, and the correction was indispensable. It was up to The Seventh Annual Report(for the year 1841) to complete making the database by the end of the year.
Judging from the progress to the previous year, we decided to complete making only the Poor Law Commissioner's Annual reports into the database. Data were input by the method which was developed in the previous year. When the first half of the year ended, we judged that a further narrowing was necessary, and removed all statistical tables pertaining to the unions from the object of making the database. By changing the policy several times, we were able to complete the database of the statistical appendices of the Poor Law Commissioner's Annual reports by the end of the year. The performance of the above database is not beyond the "Computerization data" level, and therefore we will modify it into the general-purpose type system with high convenience in the future.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2006 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2005

All Journal Article (5 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 救貧法委員会の現実認識-『第一年次報告書』における労働能力者問題の検討を中心に-2005

    • Author(s)
      廣重 準四郎
    • Journal Title

      福井工業高等専門学校 研究紀要 第39号

      Pages: 131-144

    • NAID

      110005001273

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 中世考古学の最先端をゆく-コンピュータによる陶磁器研究2005

    • Author(s)
      荻野繁春, 坪川武弘
    • Journal Title

      歴史読本(新人物往来社) 第50巻1号

      Pages: 212-219

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The Poor Law Commissioner's Understanding of the Actual Situations over the Implementation of the New Poor Law.--Focused on Problems concerning the able-bodied poor discussed in the First Annual Report.2005

    • Author(s)
      Junshiro Hiroshige
    • Journal Title

      Research Reports of Fukui National College of Technology no.39

      Pages: 131-144

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Setting the trend of medieval archaeology-computer aided research of ceramics.2005

    • Author(s)
      Shigeharu Ogino, Takehiro Tsubokawa
    • Journal Title

      Rekishi-dokuhon(Shin-Jinbutsuorai-sha) vol.50, no.1

      Pages: 212-219

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 救貧法委員会の現実認識-『第一年次報告書』における労働能力者問題の検討を中心に-2005

    • Author(s)
      廣重 準四郎
    • Journal Title

      福井工業高等専門学校研究紀要 第39号

      Pages: 131-144

    • NAID

      110005001273

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 歴史学事典 第12巻 王と国家(執筆項目 : 「救貧税」)2005

    • Author(s)
      黒田日出男他編, 廣重準四郎他著(総著者数310名)
    • Publisher
      弘文堂
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 歴史学事典 第12巻 王と国家(執筆項目:「救貧税」)(黒田日出男他編)2005

    • Author(s)
      廣重準四郎他著(総著者数310名)
    • Publisher
      弘文堂
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2004-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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