DDS Entity Definition: N_LUSGB_FARM

Name:

Farmland Use, as reported by the Land Utilisation Survey

Identifier:

N_LUSGB_FARM

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

Great Britain (Show data)

Additive:

Yes

Text:

The Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain, based at the London School of Economics and led by Professor L. Dudley Stamp, organised schools throughout Britain in the 1930s to map land use in their local area, using standard categories defined by Stamp. These statistics dividing farmland into arable and permanent grassland form part of the county-level statistics published by Stamp in his book The Land of Britain: Its use and misuse (1948 and later editions).

nCube "N_LUSGB_FARM" is contained within:

Themes:

Entity ID	Entity Name
T_LAND	Agriculture & Land Use

Universes:

Entity ID	Entity Name
U_LAND_LUS_FARM	Total farmed area measured by LUSGB, in acres

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nCube "N_LUSGB_FARM" contains:

Variables :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_LUSGB_FARM	Land Utilisation Survey farmland categories

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Data Map listing for nCube N_LUSGB_FARM:

The DDS data map lists the "cell references" that are held in our main data table, each with its category values on each dimension (variable) of the nCube.

Cell Reference	Dim	Category Value
LUSGB_FARM:grass	1	Permanent Grass
LUSGB_FARM:arable	1	Arable