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 This dataset contains 344.000 labour advertisements from the largest town newspapers in Denmark-Norway from 1750-1850.
 Labour advertisements were submitted to newspaper offices by either demand-side employers or supply-side workers looking for a job,
 to be printed in the next edition of the specific newspaper.
-The advertisements contains information about different aspects of buying and selling labour power, and sheds light on the importance of occupations, origins, experience, skills, references among other things.
+The advertisements contains information about different aspects of buying and selling labour power, and sheds light on occupational structures and the importance of origins, experience, skills, references among other things.
 The advertisements constitute a highly homogenous genre with a stable format across the entire period,
 allowing us to isolate the corpus with very high precision. The dataset is a subset from the ENO dataset curated by Johan Heinsen and Camilla Bøgeskov
 from Aalborg University (https://huggingface.co/datasets/JohanHeinsen/ENO).
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 - 'id': A unique id for the entry from the ENO dataset. Can be found using the search portal https://hislab.quarto.pub/ where you can also trace the original scanned newspaper edition.
 - 'date': The publication date for the advertisement.
 - 'newspaper': The name of the newspaper in which the advertisement was originally printed.
-- 'sex': The sex of the worker. For demand-side advertisements, the sex refers to the sex of the sought after employee, not the employer.
-- 'supply_demand': Indicator for whether the advertisement comes from the supply-side or the demand-side of the labour market.
+- 'sex': The sex of the worker. For demand-side advertisements, the sex refers to the sex of the sought after employee, not the employer. There are also instances of "both",
+- when, for example, employers look for both male and female employees. 
+- 'supply_demand': Indicator for whether the advertisement comes from the supply-side or the demand-side of the labour market.
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+## Data sensitiviy
+Due to the historical nature of the data, there is no sensitive or personal information present.
+
+## Dataset biases
+The data mirrors the hierarchichal structure of 18th and 19th century Denmark-Norway. The language reflects the idea that certain people were born to serve, whilst others were born to be masters.
+Any use of the dataset should take this into consideration, as it could reproduce these inherent biases.
+
+## More information
+For any inquiries related to the dataset, please contact Sofus Landor Dam at email: sld@society.aau.dk