I have completed a major update to my Poverty Line Project, adding records for 48,829 individuals and 9,169 families for All Saints District.
Access to the data is on the poverty line page on a separate website. https://sites.google.com/view/birmingham1889/home
This now gives the website a total of 109,789 individuals and 21,141 families, that you can search and see what Poverty line classification of any of your ancestors living in All Saints and St George districts in 1881.
The poverty line I created has five rankings, A - D allows for the household to be able to feed the family and have weekly surplus. Class E is where I state the household would likely be in poverty and would have a choice to, either feed the family with a meal equivalent to a workhouse diet and have a higher surplus of money to spend on other needs or, eat slightly better and have less money to spend elsewhere.
A = comfortable - standard meal + surplus 31+.
B = moderate - standard meal + surplus 21s 30s.
C = poor - standard meal + surplus 11s- 20s
D = very poor - standard meal + surplus 6s- 10s
E = Poverty - workhouse diet the surplus is a minus figure OR standard meal + surplus 1-5s
My previous blog explains how to use the Poverty Line Group pages, which allow you to explore the data in depth (link here)
Just to remind I cannot claim these as absolute facts or concrete evidence of a family's poverty status but is a 15 year project and thesis I have worked on.
For the statistic page I have created more options to make detail filtering
This has not changed.
I have included a second page in the Poverty line by Street, where can see each street Poverty Line Classification Rating
Any questions please ask
Cheers
Andy
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