Theme : Housing

Themes are used in the Vision of Britain system to organise all our statistical data into a small number of broad categories, often identified by icons on the web site.

Identifier:

T_HOUS

Name:

Housing

Type:

Theme (T)

Text:

The first census to report on how well people were housed was that of 1891, but the only statistics gathered were on the number of rooms and the number of people in each household. Note that in 1931 and 1951 the least crowded category reported on by the Scottish census was "Under 2 persons per room", while from 1971 onwards the most crowded category reported on anywhere was "Over 1.5 persons per room, so it is not possible to present exactly the same measure for all years and areas. From 1951 onwards, more questions were asked about 'amenities', meaning specific facilities that households either possessed or had shared access to, and from 1961 data were gathered on tenure: whether households owned or rented their homes.

One interesting measure of progress is the change in the amenities covered by the census. In 1951, these were piped water, a cooking stove, a kitchen sink, a 'water closet' meaning a flush toilet, and a 'fixed bath', as distinct from a tin bath hung on the wall between uses. By 2011, the only "amenity" recorded was central heating, so direct comparisons over the whole period from 1951 to 2011 are impossible, other than looking at what proportion of all households had "all amenities", i.e. all of whatever amenities were listed for each census. Our density data are counts of persons in households, while our amenity data are counts of households.

Theme " Housing " is contained within:

The Database, which everything else is contained within:

Entity ID	Entity Name
DB	VoB Database

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Theme " Housing " contains:

Rates, for mapping and for comparing areas :

Entity ID	Entity Name
R_HOUS_CON	Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses
R_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN	% of Persons in Households with over 1.5 person per room
R_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN_HIGH	% of Persons in Households with over 3 person per room
R_HOUS_AMENITY_GEN_excl_bath	% of Households with sole use of a bath or shower
R_HOUS_AMENITY_GEN_excl_wc	% of Households with sole use of a WC
R_HOUS_AMENITY_GEN_cen_heat	% of Households with Central Heating
R_HOUS_AMENITY_GEN_all_amen	% of Households with All Amenities
R_MUD_HUTS	% Class 4 (1 Room Mud Huts)
R_HOUS_OWNEROCC	% Owner-Occupier
R_HOUS_RENT_COUNCIL	% Council Housing

Datasets or nCubes, containing the actual data :

Entity ID	Entity Name
N_HOUS_DENSITY_TOT	Total for Housing Density Data
N_ROOMS	Total Rooms
N_ROOM_OCCUPANCY	Rooms Occupied
N_HOUS_CLASS_IRL	Inhabited Houses by "Class" (Ireland)
N_FAM_HOUS_CLASS_IRL	Inhabited Houses by "Class" (Ireland)
N_HOUS_TENURE_TOT	Total Households (Tenure)
N_HOUSEHOLDS	Total Households
N_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN	Housing Density (Generalised)
N_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN_HIGH	Housing Density (Scottish categories)
N_HOUS_ALL_AMENITY	Housing Amenities
N_HOUS_HAVE_BATH	Exclusive use of a bath
N_HOUS_HAVE_WC	Exclusive use of a W.C.
N_HOUS_CENTRAL_HEAT	Having Central Heating
N_HOUS_TENURE_GEN	Housing Tenure
N_HOUSES	Total Houses
N_HOUSE_OCCUPANCY	House Occupancy
N_PREV_HOUSE_OCCUPANCY_10YRS	House Occupancy 10 years earlier
N_PREV_HOUSE_OCCUPANCY_20YRS	House Occupancy 20 years earlier
N_HHOLD_SIZE_15UP	Persons (1-15up) per Room (1-10up)
N_HOUS_ROOMS_10UP	Persons (1-15up) per Room (1-10up)
N_HOUS_DENS_XTAB_R10_P15	Persons (1-15up) per Room (1-10up)

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_HOUSES	Total Houses
V_HOUSE_OCCUPANCY	Housing Occupancy
V_ROOMS	Total Rooms
V_HOUSEHOLDS	Total Households
V_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN	Persons per Room
V_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN_HIGH	Persons per Room
V_HOUS_DENSITY_TOT	Total persons in Housing Density Counts
V_HHOLD_SIZE_15UP	Household Size (1-15up)
V_HHOLD_ROOMS_10UP	Rooms per Household (1-10up)
V_HOUS_ALL_AMENITY	Housing Amenities
V_HOUS_HAVE_BATH	Having exclusive use of Bath/Shower
V_HOUS_HAVE_WC	Having exclusive use of W.C.
V_HOUS_CENTRAL_HEAT	Having Central Heating
V_HOUS_CLASS_IRL	House Class (Ireland)
V_HOUS_TENURE_TOT	Total Households (Tenure)
V_HOUS_TENURE_GEN	Housing Tenure