GB Historical DB

Parish-level statistics for England and Wales from the 1961 census

Table ID:
PAR_1961_EW     (1252569)
Contents:
Parish-level statistics for England and Wales from the 1961 census
Approx. number of rows:
16,342
Table type:
Raw Data
Documentation Author:
Humphrey Southall
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 1961.

Sources:

  1. This table holds a full transcription of the 1961 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. These data were input by the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at the Queen's University of Belfast.

Notes:

  1. While these data do contain ward ID numbers these wards only relate to 1961 and have not been tracked through time in the AUO.
  2. This table does NOT provide data on all parishes in England and Wales. For urban areas it lists wards rather than parishes. This is the first census parish-level table that does not include urban parishes alongside the wards. Any urban areas which have associated parish names included in the raw data have the parish names removed during loading.
    Instead, we have an implied parish column to indicate the parishes we would expect in this urban area. We also have a implied parish unit column to assign these impied parishes a unit ID value. The implied parish column was populated in the following way;
    • In most cases, a single parish has the same name as the local government district that contains it. For these rows we simply copy across the local government district name.
    • In a few cases where the name of the district and the single parish differs, we manually add the parish name.
    • In a few other cases the wards have the same set of names as the parishes comprising the local government district, so we copy across the ward names.
      • In both these latter circumstances, the par_name column will be blank.
    • Some urban districts cannot be assigned parishes, these rows leave the implied parish column blank. See notes below for details.

Checking:

  1. This dataset has been verified in a number of ways. All numeric fields, with the exception of pop_1951, h_hold and dwelling have been checked by summing the OCR'd data and comparing the sums with sums provided in the original report. Remaining numeric fields were verified using cross checks within the database.
  2. Administrative unit fields were verified using cross referencing checks within the database against the AUO for the county and district names and their status types were cross referenced against those in the age_lgd table for 1961. The ward names were matched against the 1971 Ward Edina GIS file highlighting some transcription errors in the 1961 table which have been corrected.
  3. One English urban unit, Longridge UD in Lancashire, consists of a single entry not divided into wards in the original table, suggesting a single parish. However, the AUO indicates it should have two parishes within it, therefore the parish unit IDs cannot be added.
  4. Two Welsh urban units have no parish information assigned. Haverfordwest MB in Pembrokeshire, consists of a single entry not divided into wards in the original table, suggesting a single parish. However, the AUO indicates it should have six parishes within it, therefore the parish unit IDs cannot be added. Caerphilly UD in Glamorgan has 9 wards which in 1951 were split between two parishes, however the 1961 table has a slightly different list of ward names with different areas from the 1951 wards, therefore the parish IDs have not been added.

Indices:

IndexTypeColumn(s) indexed
par_1961_ew_pkey Primary key rec_num
par_1961_ew_dist_idx Unique cnty_unit, lg_dist, lg_type, rec_num
par_1961_ew_par_idx Unique dist_unit, civ_par, rec_num
par_1961_ew_ward_idx Unique dist_unit, lg_ward, rec_num

Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

ConstraintTypeDetails
par_1961_ew_pkey Primary Key See details above for primary key index


Columns within table:

ColumnTypeContents
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.=104). Name of Local Government District unit as it appeared in the original report.
lg_dist Text string (max.len.=64). Cleaned up name of local government district.
lg_type Text string (max.len.=8). Type of Local Government District.
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 up name of parish level unit.
ward_name Text string (max.len.=204). [No description available]
lg_ward Text string (max.len.=204). Name of Ward as given in original table.
imply_par Text string (max.len.=204). Cleaned up name of implied parish level unit where inside an urban area.
clean_ward Text string (max.len.=204). [No description available]
cnty_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for administrative 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.
imply_par_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for implied parish level unit.
ward_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for local government ward unit.
g_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for smallest identified administrative spatial unit, generally a parish or ward. In a few cases this is the district (see notes above).
part_of Text string (max.len.=5). Set to "p" to indicate the parish is split, normally between one or more Wards.
area Floating point number. Area of parish-level unit.
pop_1951 Integer number. The population in 1951
pop_1961 Integer number. The population in 1961
ma_1961 Integer number. Total number of males in 1961
fe_1961 Integer number. Total number of females in 1961
pop_den Floating point number. The population density in persons per acre in 1961.
h_hold Integer number. The number of private families in 1961
pop_hou Integer number. Population in private families in 1961.
dwelling Integer number. The number of structurally separate dwellings occupied in 1961.
ro_occ Integer number. Rooms occupied in 1961.
den_occ Floating point number. Persons per room in 1961.
den_2up Floating point number. Percentage of persons living at more than 1 1/2 per room.
notes Text string (max.len.=4004). Comments.
dup_ward_flag Integer number. [No description available]
rec_num Integer number. Unique number identifying row in table.