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diff --git a/datasets/uk_coal_employ/README.md b/datasets/uk_coal_employ/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1cfcf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/datasets/uk_coal_employ/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Historic Employment in UK Coal Mines + +This is historic data obtained from [the UK +government](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/historical-coal-data-coal-production-availability-and-consumption). +As the dataset is licensed under the [Open Government +License](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) +we distribute it as part of this repository. + +We use the employment column for the number of workers employed in the British +coal mines (extracted to ``employ_only.csv`` from ``Coal_since_1853.xls``) and +converted to the ``uk_coal_employ.json`` file. Missing values in the data are +indicated by a ``null`` value in the JSON file. + + |