nCube : NS Socio-economic Classification (4-way)

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_NS_SEC_4WAY

Name:

NS Socio-economic Classification (4-way)

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

the United Kingdom ( Show data )

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

Here we simplify the National Statistics Socio-economic Classfication into just four analytic categories, which we try to present over a very long period. Note that up to 1991 the census focused on levels of "skill", and on whether work was "manual", but since 2001 the focus has instead been on whether work was "routine", making comparisons difficult.

nCube "NS Socio-economic Classification (4-way)" is contained within:

Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

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

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nCube "NS Socio-economic Classification (4-way)" contains:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

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NS Socio-economic Classification (4-way): 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.