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 7139941 This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value 5 This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered 1881 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 10537459 Axminster SubD
Meaning (DDS cell reference) OCC_RAW1881:male/174 Cell within nCube N_OCC_RAW1881: Detailed 1881 occupational statistics, by gender
DimensionVariableCategory
1 Sex Male
2 1881 Occupational Titles Plumber
Universe: All Workers
Table in census reports EW1881AGE_M10 1881 Census of England and Wales, Ages, Table 10 , 'Occupations of Males and Females in the Division and its Registration Counties'
Column in census table 1 Column label from original table:
  Males.
Row in census table 185 Row label from original table:
    Plumber
Credits ALL_occ_1881_ew Contributor(s):

(1) Kevin Schurer (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge). Role: editor. Restrictions on use: the data cannot be accessed, although the Vision of Britain system may present them graphically (any other use requires the contributor's permission.)

(2) Matthew Woollard (UK Data Service, University of Essex). Role: editor. Restrictions on use: the data cannot be accessed, although the Vision of Britain system may present them graphically (any other use requires the contributor's permission.)

Status P Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision E Exact
Created by occ_1881_no_age 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.


How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Vision of Britain | Context for data value | The meaning of 5, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/datavalue/7139941

Date accessed: 19th April 2024