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	17879130	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	8,951	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1951	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	10358875	Dalkeith Burgh
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	ROOMS:total	Cell within nCube N_ROOMS: Total Rooms Dimension Variable Category 1 Total Rooms Total Rooms Universe: All Rooms in Residential Accommodation
Table in census reports	S1951COU_M1	1951 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 1 , 'Comparison of population, density per 100 acres, and houses with 1931', for 'Burghs, Districts of Counties and CPs'
Column in census table	7	Column label from original table:   1951: Rooms: Occupied
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	par_1951_s	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.