Parish level statistics for England and Wales taken from the 1921 census

Table ID:

PAR_1921_EW     (1252511)

Contents:

Parish level statistics for England and Wales taken from the 1921 census

Approx. number of rows:

17,339

Table type:

Raw Data

Documentation Author:

Paula Aucott

Geography:

Reporting units are identified by:
   Administrative County
   Local Government District
   Local Government District Type
   Civil Parish
   Parish- or sub-Parish-level Unit
   Original name of parish-level unit

Chronology:

The data are for the single year 1921.

Sources:

1. A full transcription of the 1921 parish level table - Table 3 - Acreage, population, private households and dwellings - Administrative County, County Boroughs, Municipal Boroughs, Urban Districts, Rural Districts, Wards and Civil Parishes.
2. This table contains a full transcription of the source table.
3. Census data for each county is published in a separate volume.

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Notes:

1. These data were input by the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen's University, Belfast.
2. This table was originally called par_1921 and was a combination of the English and Welsh data. This was amended in May 2015 and is now called par_1921_ew to reflect more accurately the area covered by the content.

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Checking:

1. This dataset has been verified in a number of ways. All numeric fields have been checked by summing the OCR'd data and comparing the sums with sums provided in the original report. Cross check sums were used on all numeric fields except pop_1911 and dwelling.
2. The geographical units have been cross-checked against the GBHGIS administrative unit gazetteer to ensure that all units are correctly identified. Each unit has a unique unit ID assigned to it and this can be used to cross-reference against other data-sets.

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Indices:

Index	Type	Column(s) indexed
par_1921_ew_pkey	Primary key	rec_num
par_1921_ew_dist_idx	Unique	lg_dist, lg_type, adm_cnty, rec_num
par_1921_ew_gunit_idx	Unique	g_unit, rec_num
par_1921_ew_par_idx	Unique	civ_par, lg_dist, lg_type, adm_cnty, rec_num
par_1921_ew_ward_idx	Unique	lg_ward, civ_par, lg_dist, lg_type, adm_cnty, rec_num

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Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

Constraint	Type	Details
par_1921_ew_pkey	Primary Key	See details above for primary key index

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Columns within table:

Column	Type	Contents
adm_cnty	Text string (max.len.=44).	Name of Administrative County unit as it appeared in the original report.
dist_name	Text string (max.len.=204).	Name of Local Government District unit as it appeared in the original report.
lg_dist	Text string (max.len.=104).	Cleaned up name of district level unit.
lg_type	Text string (max.len.=8).	Type of Local Government District.
par_name	Text string (max.len.=204).	Name of parish or similar unit as given in original table.
civ_par	Text string (max.len.=204).	Cleaned up name of parish level unit.
lg_ward	Text string (max.len.=204).	Name of Ward as given in original table.
cnty_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for county unit.
dist_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for local government district unit.
par_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for parish level unit.
ward_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for local government ward unit, currently unpopulated.
g_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for smallest administrative spatial unit, currently all parishes.
part_of	Text string (max.len.=5).	Set to "p" to indicate the parish is split, normally between one or more Wards.
area	Integer number.	Area of parish-level unit.
pop_1911	Integer number.	The population in 1911
pop_1921	Integer number.	The population in 1921
ma_1921	Integer number.	Total number of males in 1921
fe_1921	Integer number.	Total number of females in 1921
pop_den	float8	The population density in persons per acre in 1921.
h_hold	Integer number.	The number of private families in 1921
pop_hou	Integer number.	Population in private families in 1921.
dwelling	Integer number.	The number of structurally separate dwellings occupied in 1921.
ro_occ	Integer number.	Rooms occupied in 1921.
den_occ	float8	Persons per room in 1921.
notes	Text string (max.len.=4004).	Comments.
rec_num	Integer number.	Unique number identifying row in table.