nCube : Total Deaths

nCubes hold all the statistics presented by the Vision of Britain system, and are defined as combinations of variables. For example, the age-sex tables that appear in most census reports are held as two-dimensional nCubes in which one dimension is a variable categorising sex and the other variable defines a set of age groups. nCubes can have many dimensions, such as age by sex by occupation by cause of death, or just one.

Identifier:

N_DEATH_TOT

Name:

Total Deaths

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

Great Britain ( Show data )

Additive:

No

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

Total deaths. We include here expected counts based on different sets of national rates.

nCube " Total Deaths " is contained within:

Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID	Entity Name
T_VITAL	Life & Death

Universes, definining what the values in datasets add up to:

Entity ID	Entity Name
U_DEATHS	All deaths

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nCube " Total Deaths " contains:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_TOT_DEATHS	Total Deaths

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Total Deaths: Data map listing

Each of our datasets, or nCubes, combines one or more variables (Var) each of which consists of a set of categories. The data map lists all the possible combinations of categories. The cell references are the identifiers held in our main table of statistics, recording what each number measures.

Cell Reference	Var	Category Value
DEATH_TOT:total	1	Total Deaths
DEATH_TOT:expected	1	Expected Deaths
DEATH_TOT:exp_1951	1	Expected Deaths using 1951 rates