nCube : Total Births

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_BIRTH_TOT

Name:

Total Births

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

the United Kingdom ( Show data )

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

Total Births.

nCube " Total Births " 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_BIRTHS	All Births

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nCube " Total Births " contains:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_BIRTHS	Total Live Births

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Total Births: 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
BIRTH_TOT:total	1	Total Births