Documentation for individual data value

Behind the Vision of Britain web site is a true data library, a collection of individual statistics each with its own metadata to tell users what it means. These metadata also control how the system visualises statistical data through graphs and maps. This is what we know about the particular data value you selected:

Attribute	Value	Meaning
Identifier	12930138	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	3	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	January 1st, 1861 to December 31st, 1870	We store dates within a date object, which can hold anything from a simple year value, for a census, to a period defined by two calendar dates.
Administrative area covered	10055787	Medway RegD/PLU
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	CoD_DS_1860s_U5:male/1/joint	Cell within nCube N_CoD_DS_1860s_U5: Decennial Cause of Death by Age & Sex for under 5s Dimension Variable Category 1 Sex Male 2 Age in single years between birth & 5 1 3 Cause of Death (RG 1860s DS definition) Diseases of Joints Universe: All deaths at ages under 5 years
Source	RG_DS	Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office) ,
Credits	WOODSR_cause_ew_reg_dec	Contributor(s): Robert Woods (Department of Geography, University of Liverpool). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes.
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	cause_ew_reg_dec	This is the name of our script which inserted this data value into the main data table. For non-derived values, this is usually done by copying data values across from our more conventional GBHDB database, and the scripts are usually named after the table in GBHDB they copy data from.

This table lists, in its "value" column, a single row from our data table. The values are mostly identifiers and codes which are given meaning by our main sub-systems, and the "meaning" column reaches into these to tell you more.