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| The data are taken from CDs created by The Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland. The file is a zipped, tab-delimited text file. The first row contains the series names. |
| WAGE_1900: Monthly wage in constant 1900 G.B. pounds sterling. All mariners in the sample were also given provisions. |
| AGE: Age in years of the mariner. |
| BARK: Technology indicator variable equal to 1 if the vessel was a barque or barquentine, and zero otherwise. |
| STEAM: Technology indicator variable equal to 1 if the vessel was asteamship, and zero otherwise. |
| Note: If Bark=Steam=0, then the vessel was a square-rigged ship or brig. |
| CONTRACT_YEAR: Year the mariner embarked on the voyage. |
| LITERATE: Crude literacy indicator: equal to one if the mariner signed his own name, 0 if a X was used. |
| COMPLETE: Equal to one if the mariner completed the contract length before leaving the vessel, zero otherwise. Early departure may be the result of desertion or mutual agreement. |
| CURRENCY: Equal to one if payment was made in US dollars, zero if payment was made in pounds sterling. |
| GROSS_TONS: Registered gross tonnage of vessel, in thosuands. |
| YEAR_CONSTRUCTED: Year vessel was launched. |
| Dummy variables for locations of port of
embarkation:
Baseline: Canada PJ1=1: USA PJ2=1: Great Britain PJ3=1: Ireland PJ4=1: Scandinavia PJ5=1: Other Europe PJ6=1: Latin America and Caribbean PJ7=1: Africa PJ8=1: Asia/Pacific/Oceania. |
| Dummy variables for geographic voyage
destinations:
Baseline: North Atlantic (specific destination
not given
-- usually multiple European destinations))
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