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Filename: g130dm02.tab
Metadata of file as originally deposited:
Data Set Name: \POUL\DANM002 Type:
Observations: 97 Record Len: 124
Variables: 15
Label: Danish royal revs & expend 1710-1806
Date created: 1 August 1991
Date last altered: 8 August 1991
Datasets used: c:\poul\danm001.ssd, dand006.ssd, dand014.ssd
ESFDB dataset: c:\poul\danm002.ssd
Sources: Knud J.V. Jespersen, Danmarks Historie, 3 :
Gyldendal (Kíbenhavn, 1989), p. 282 (for 1710-
20); J. Boisen Schmidt, Studier over
statshusholdningen i kong Frederik IV's
regeringstid 1699-1730 (Kíbenhavn, 1967); M.L.
Nathanson (1836)
Source subset: Danish royal revenues and expenditure, 1710-1806
Source subset title:
Owner of file: Dr Bjírn Poulsen
Author of program: MMB
NOTES
The contents of this data file may not be reproduced without citation
of the ESFDB dataset name.
All the figures from 1731 onwards come from one source, Nathanson.
There is reason to be sceptical of the numbers given by the banker and
historian Nathanson because they contain a number of errors. However,
they are used for lack of other sources. The period 1747 to 1765 is
particularly difficult because of the complicated way in which the
accounts were kept and consequently the figures for these years are
very uncertain. For other difficulties with this data, see notes to
individual datasets.
EXTOT2 is the total of expenditure given in the Jespersen's table
covering the period 1710-20. Two expenditure totals have been
calculated. TEXPEN is the total expenditure for the period 1731-84,
including debt servicing and new debts. TEXPEN2 takes out debts from
the total of expenditure. There are no expenditure figures after 1784.
The deficit, if any, has been calculated by taking the expenditure
totals from the revenue total. It can be seen that there was a
deficit, according to these figures, in the years 1731-32, 1734-36,
1739-40, 1742-44, 1763, 1765, 1770 and 1773 if the full expenditure
total is used. If debts are excluded from expenditure, then there are
fewer years of deficit, notably 1734, 1739, 1743, 1763, 1765, 1770 and
1773.