Data Appendix for Lack, P., "Using Word Analysis to Track the Evolution of Emotional Well-being in Nineteenth-Century Industrializing Britain", Historical Methods (forthcoming)

This file contains the data associated with the publication Lack, P., "Using Word Analysis to Track the Evolution of Emotional Well-being in Nineteenth-Century Industrializing Britain", Historical Methods (forthcoming). It quantifies the trend in emotional well-being expressed in a corpus of British pamphlets published between 1800 and 1900. The first page of the excel document presents this key data on the trend in emotional well-being. Sheet 1A presents summary statistics on the trend in emotional well-being and its correlation with GDP per capita and real wages.