Parish level statistics for England and Wales taken from the 1891 census

Table ID:

PAR_1891_EW     (1252419)

Contents:

Parish level statistics for England and Wales taken from the 1891 census

Approx. number of rows:

15,113

Table type:

Raw Data

Documentation Author:

Humphrey Southall

Geography:

Reporting units are identified by:
   Administrative County
   Civil Parish
   Registration County
   Registration District
   Registration District Number
   Suffix to Registration District Number
   Registration sub-District
   Registration sub-District Number
   Parish- or sub-Parish-level Unit
   Original name of parish-level unit

Chronology:

The data are for the single year 1891.

Sources:

1. Holds a full transcription of the parish-level table - Table 2. - Area, Houses and Population of Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and of their constituent Civil Parishes from the 1891 census volume Population. Registration areas and sanitary districts, England and Wales. Vol. II, 1891.
2. This table contains a full transcription of the source table.
3. The printed table does not include footnotes.
4. The structure of this table largely follows that of the printed table with the exception of locational alpha data which has been reorganised.

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Notes:

1. These data were input by the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen's University, Belfast. Extensive additional checking and correcting was undertaken by Humphrey Southall in November 2003.

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Checking:

1. CDDA described their error checking as follows: 'ALL numeric data were checked by summing and comparing the sums with summary registration county data contained in the original table'.
2. In 2003, the total populations for 1881 and 1891 were re-checked against the totals for males and females in each year. All inconsistencies have been eliminated.
3. In 2003, the total 1891 population for each Registration District was compared with the total given in the 1891 Registration District age structure table. All such populations now match, so there are no missing or duplicated rows.
4. The geographical units have been cross-checked against the GBHGIS administrative unit gazetteer to ensure that all units are correctly identified down to parish level. The unit names and types have been standardised. Each unit has a unique unit ID assigned to it and this can be used to cross-reference against other data-sets. The following sub-districts were specially matched because although they are listed in the 1891 Census, they were not listed as officially created until 1892;
   • Stokenchurch SubD, Marlow SubD, and Wycombe SubD all in Wycombe RegD, Buckinghamshire
   • Bebington SubD in Wirral RegD Cheshire
   • Mildenhall SubD in Mildenhall RegD, Suffolk
   • Worcester SubD in Worcester RegD, Worcestershire
5. Where the administrative county differs from the Registration county this is given in brackets after the parish name. These rows are matched to the AUO. The exceptions are Bramshott and Horsmonden, both given as partly in Sussex. However, Sussex is not defined as an administrative county, and we currently have no other corroborating evidence of this relationship in the AUO so we cannot match these two rows to either East Sussex or West Sussex. In addition there are 39 parishes identified as being in Lincolnshire, which is not defined as an administrative county. These rows have had additional manual matching to the different Lincolnshire Parts counties (Lindsey, Holland and Kesteven) in the AUO.
6. The sub-parish units are mostly Colleges in Oxford and Cambridge. These have all been matched to the AUO. Additionally there are two military camps and seven other distinguished areas none of which are currently in the AUO.

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Indices:

Index	Type	Column(s) indexed
par_1891_ew_pkey	Primary key	rec_num
par_1891_ew_cnty_idx	Unique	reg_cnty, rec_num
par_1891_ew_dist_idx	Unique	reg_dist, reg_cnty, rec_num
par_1891_ew_gunit_idx	Unique	par_unit, rec_num
par_1891_ew_par2_idx	Unique	sub_dist_unit, civ_par, rec_num
par_1891_ew_subpar_idx	Unique	sub_par, civ_par, sub_dist, reg_dist, reg_cnty, rec_num
par_1891_subdist_idx	Unique	sub_dist, reg_dist, reg_cnty, rec_num

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Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

Constraint	Type	Details
par_1891_ew_pkey	Primary Key	See details above for primary key index

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Columns within table:

Column	Type	Contents
reg_num	Integer number.	Number of Registration District, as listed in original census report.
reg_sfx	Text string (max.len.=8).	Suffix to Registration District number as given in the original report.
sub_num	Integer number.	Number of Registration sub-District, as listed in original census report.
reg_cnty	Text string (max.len.=44).	Name of Registration County unit as it appeared in the original report.
reg_dist	Text string (max.len.=104).	Name of Registration District unit as it appeared in the original report.
sub_dist	Text string (max.len.=104).	Name of Registration sub-District as it appeared in the original report.
par_name	Text string (max.len.=304).	Name of parish or similar unit as given in original table.
civ_par	Text string (max.len.=204).	Cleaned name of parish level unit.
sub_par	Text string (max.len.=204).	Name of sub-parish unit as given in the original table.
subpar_type	Text string (max.len.=14).	Code added to indicate type where not a parish.
adm_cnty	Text string (max.len.=44).	Name of Administrative County containing the unit, where this is different from the Registration County as given in the original report.
nation_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for nation unit. Derived from the Registration County.
reg_cnty_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for registration county unit.
reg_dist_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for registration district unit.
sub_dist_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for sub registration district unit.
par_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for parish level unit.
sub_par_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for unit below parish level.
adm_cnty_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for administrative county unit where applicable.
g_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for smallest administrative spatial unit.
part_of	Text string (max.len.=12).	Set to "P" to indicate the parish is split.
inst	Text string (max.len.=20).	Codes indicating whether a workhouse or a workhouse school was present: '(W) or (W.S.) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the Parish; (w) or (w.s.) that one of these institutions not belonging to the District is situated therein.'.
area	Integer number.	Area of the unit, in acres. Note that in some cases the acreages of units crossing Registration County boundaries are split, in other cases joined. Further, acreages are not always given in the printed table, and hence this transcription, for sub-parish units.
inh_1881	Integer number.	Number of inhabited houses in 1881
unh_1881	Integer number.	Number of uninhabited houses in 1881
bih_1881	Integer number.	Number of houses under construction in 1881.
inh_1891	Integer number.	Number of inhabited houses in 1891
unh_1891	Integer number.	Number of uninhabited houses in 1891
bih_1891	Integer number.	Number of houses under construction in 1891.
pop_1881	Integer number.	Total population in 1881
pop_1891	Integer number.	Total population in 1891
ma_1881	Integer number.	Total number of males in 1881
ma_1891	Integer number.	Total number of males in 1891
fe_1881	Integer number.	Total number of females in 1881
fe_1891	Integer number.	Total number of females in 1891
notes	Text string (max.len.=4004).	Notes given in the printed table or added to assist users.
rec_num	Integer number.	Unique number identifying row in original order in the table.