The chapter provides a detailed statistical account of this model because it plays an important role in many applications.
There is precise information – albeit from later in the century – about Dornoch, contained in the 1790s Statistical Account of Scotland, a detailed record based on information supplied by parish ministers.
The scattered village is the site of a house, now only a mound, connected with a story first recorded in 1793 in The Statistical Account of Scotland, which tells of John de Groot and his two brothers from Holland, who settled there with a royal letter of protection.
The Statistical Account of Scotland noted that during a storm the sea level on the west of the island was more than two fathoms [12 feet] higher than on the east side, and that the spray was thrown so high that it washed over the cliff tops "and falls in such profusion as to run in rills to the opposite shore".
Maybe it's mean to ask an author who has consulted twenty-one volumes of "The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of Different Parishes" to refrain from giving us the full fruits of his research, but, beyond a certain point, evidence no longer qualifies as knowledge.
The First Statistical Account of Scotland published between 1791 and 1799 records how the climate of the area was pleasant enough for "natives of the East and West Indies" to live there.
Formal excavations are first recorded at Earl's Knoll on Papa Stronsay in the Statistical Account of Scotland in 1795.
Rev. Sage, in his account of the parish in the (Old) Statistical Account of Scotland, noted the ruins mentioned by Pennant; he called them "Cairn-Suin", and translated this to "Old Cairns".
In the "Old" Statistical Account of Scotland (1792), compiled under the direction of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, Neilston was noted to have two cotton mills employing together more than 300 people, over half of them children.
Topics include conceptual and methodological approaches, statistical accounting of women's work, issues related to the family, the household and 'caring labour', poverty, employment and labour markets, structural adjustment policies and social change.
