– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Employment patterns are extremely valuable to historians transition from agricultural work into other employment can identify large scale of economic change King calculated British family income in order to advise the government of future Tax revenue classified family based on status and thereby providing cross status for Britain and Wales Coluquhuin did the same in the early 1800s King might have done this because he wanted to show how this could have been depleted England’s wealth when they went to war with France and 1688 by the end of the 17th century the tables demonstrated very different various in Britain Masse grouped these tables into four categories these tables demonstrated quantitative accuracy perish records did not give accurate information Lindert wanted to collect all of this information from registers and convert it into social tables Lindert’s figures demonstrated a shift away from agriculture and into manufacturing therefore this made England more industrial rich kussmauul - a marriage record could also tell a lot about status e.g. late marriages could tell couples were farming because of the harvest Kausmaul’s methods demonstrated that she could tell a lot about men’s work but not women’s Numbers slowly indicated that marriages were shifting into nonseasonal times which meant there was a shift from agricultural work Using Kausmaul’s analysis, did women marry based off of whether or not they were going to have a seasonal or nonseasonal marriage? Was the farming and agricultural way of life kind of decision-maker in a woman’s future?