Parish and ward level statistics for England and Wales from the 1971 census

Table ID:

PAR_1971_EW     (1252588)

Contents:

Parish and ward level statistics for England and Wales from the 1971 census

Approx. number of rows:

17,890

Table type:

Raw Data

Documentation Author:

Paula Aucott

Geography:

Reporting units are identified by:
   Parish- or sub-Parish-level Unit

Chronology:

The data are for the single year 1971.

Sources:

1. This table holds a transcription of the 1971 parish level table - Table 3 - Area, population, private households and occupied rooms - County, Local Authority Areas, Wards, Civil Parishes in Rural Districts, Conurbation Centres, New Towns.
2. These data were input by the Harold Price at the University of Portsmouth in Spring 2016.

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Notes:

1. This table does not provide data on all parishes in England and Wales, as for urban areas it lists wards rather than parishes.
2. This table is additional to our original electronic 1971 parish table which contained just figures for total population and total household. This version of the table is more like the traditional parish level tables we hold.
3. This is a partial transcription. It does not include any columns relating to private household populations, absent households, number of households or rooms. It also does not include most information relating to conurbation centres or new towns.
4. The table has been modified (March 2017) to ensure that each value of g_unit appears only once. This means that the following rows lack g_unit values:
   • County urban and rural aggregates (area_type = 'UrbAgg' or 'RurAgg').
   • County totals which exclude County Boroughs, when the table includes a count for the same county which includes them.
   • A number of rows connected with Crawley New Town in Sussex, which seems to have had a very complex relationship with surrounding LGDs and parishes.
   • Shipping areas which exist outside of the parish/ward systems
   • Longridge CP, Lancashire, as explained below.

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Checking:

1. This dataset has been verified in a number of ways. Summed Male and Female population figures were compared against the Total population for each row. Population divided by area was compared against the population density figure for each row. In a few cases there was a difference of 0.01 which presumably are a result of Barnardising. The figures were double checked to ensure they were an accurate copy of the transcription.
2. Administrative unit IDs were added by cross referencing the names and status values given against the AUO. As yet these data do not contain g_unit values for (i) wards, (ii) urban and rural aggregates, (iii) shipping areas, because these have not been inserted as units into the AUO.
3. The row for Lancashire: LONGRIDGE UD has a matching issue. The table does not describe the units within smaller UD districts where they do not contain wards. In the majority of cases the UD consists of a single parish with the same name as the district. These have been added in as implied values. However, LONGRIDGE UD had no Longridge CP, instead it was made up of two parishes, Alston Tn/CP and Dilworth Tn/CP. The table does not identify how the figures within the UD are divided between the two parishes and therefore the figures cannot be assigned to the correct parish.

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Indices:

Index	Type	Column(s) indexed
par_1971_ew_pkey	Primary key	rec_num
par_1971_ew_area_idx	Unique	area_name, area_type, area, rec_num
par_1971_ew_containercnty_idx	Unique	clean_cnty, clean_area, g_unit_type, rec_num
par_1971_ew_containerdist_idx	Unique	clean_cnty, clean_dist, g_unit_type, g_status, rec_num
par_1971_ew_containerpar_idx	Unique	clean_cnty, clean_dist, clean_area, g_unit_type, g_status, rec_num
par_1971_ew_unit_idx	Unique	area_name, area_type, area, g_unit, rec_num

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Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

Constraint	Type	Details
par_1971_ew_pkey	Primary Key	See details above for primary key index

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Columns within table:

Column	Type	Contents
area_name	Text string (max.len.=184).	Name of unit as it appeared in the original report.
area_type	Text string (max.len.=24).	Status type of unit as given in original report; i.e. [Admin] County/County with CBs, Local Government District statuses, Civil Parish, Local Government Ward, New Town, Conurbation Centre.
area	Floating point number.	Area of unit (Hectares).
pop_1961	Integer number.	The population in 1961
pop_1971	Integer number.	The population in 1971
ma_1971	Integer number.	Total number of males in 1971
fe_1971	Integer number.	Total number of females in 1971
pop_den	Floating point number.	The population density in persons per hectare in 1971.
dup_cnty_flag	Integer number.	[No description available]
dup_dist_flag	Integer number.	[No description available]
dup_par_flag	Integer number.	[No description available]
dup_ward_flag	Integer number.	[No description available]
clean_area	Text string (max.len.=184).	[No description available]
clean_cnty	Text string (max.len.=104).	[No description available]
clean_dist	Text string (max.len.=184).	[No description available]
clean_dist_type	Text string (max.len.=20).	[No description available]
clean_par	Text string (max.len.=184).	[No description available]
clean_ward	Text string (max.len.=184).	[No description available]
imply_par	Text string (max.len.=184).	[No description available]
g_unit_type	Text string (max.len.=24).	Unit type value as usually found in the AUO, i.e. Adm_CNTY, LG_DIST, PAR_UNIT, New_Town, CONURB. The value will be blank if the row relates to a unit type that is not in the AUO, i.e. Shipping or Aggregates for urban or rural areas.
g_status	Text string (max.len.=24).	Status type of unit as usually found in the AUO, i.e. LB, LCC, CB, MB, UD, RD for Local Government Districts, CP or LG_Ward for parish level units. The value will be blank if the row relates to a unit status that is not in the AUO.
adm_cnty_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for Administrative County where unit is contained within it.
lg_dist_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for Local Government District/New Town where unit contained within it.
par_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for Civil Parish.
imply_par_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for Civil Parish where urban parish is implied.
ward_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for Local Government Ward.
g_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for smallest administrative unit. Where the row relates to a parish the g_unit is the parish unit ID. Where the row relates to a larger unit the g_unit value is for that larger unit. In some urban cases the g_unit value is the implied civil parish associated with this small urban place. Where the unit is not in the AUO, for instance a Shipping area or the unit is not matched, this value is blank.
rec_num	Integer number.	Unique number identifying row in table.
newname	Text string (max.len.=204).	[No description available]
newarea	Integer number.	[No description available]
newnotes	Text string (max.len.=4004).	[No description available]
newchangeflag	Text string (max.len.=10).	[No description available]