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Series
Registered Files
Catalogue reference: CSPR 2
What's it about?
CSPR 2
Files relating mainly to general policy, survey planning and internal establishment matters. The series also contains a representative sample of files arising from surveys of Civil Service establishments and of private firms and organizations,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CSPR 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1956-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files relating mainly to general policy, survey planning and internal establishment matters. The series also contains a representative sample of files arising from surveys of Civil Service establishments and of private firms and organizations, such as banks, building societies, manufacturing industries and insurance companies.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 226 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Manufacturing
- Mutual societies
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- An accelerated review of records followed the closure of the Unit in 1980-1981. Selection comprised some files from the following series - personnel (PERS), policy (P), staff training (T), internal research projects (IRP), feedback of information to survey participants (FE), grade standards (GS), and control files for a typical survey (S) (clerical, administrative and higher grades), together with a representative sample of internal and external survey files for these grades.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5540/
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