Documentation for individual data value

Behind the Vision of Britain web site is a true data library, a collection of individual statistics each with its own metadata to tell users what it means. These metadata also control how the system visualises statistical data through graphs and maps. This is what we know about the particular data value you selected:

Attribute	Value	Meaning
Identifier	3632817	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	0	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1931	We store dates within a date object, which can hold anything from a simple year value, for a census, to a period defined by two calendar dates.
Administrative area covered	10361357	Newton Stewart Burgh
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	AGESEX_85UP_U1:male/ns	Cell within nCube N_AGESEX_85UP_U1: Age & Sex Structure in 5-year bands to age 85 (under 1s separate) Dimension Variable Category 1 Sex Male 2 Age in 5-year bands to age 85, under 1s separate Age unstated Universe: All Persons
Table in census reports	S1931COU_M21	1931 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 21 , 'Quinquennial Age-Groups and Conjugal Condition (All Ages) - All Burghs and Districts of Counties'
Column in census table	21	Column label from original table:   Age not Stated.
Row in census table	1	Row label from original table:   Males
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	age_scot	This is the name of our script which inserted this data value into the main data table. For non-derived values, this is usually done by copying data values across from our more conventional GBHDB database, and the scripts are usually named after the table in GBHDB they copy data from.

This table lists, in its "value" column, a single row from our data table. The values are mostly identifiers and codes which are given meaning by our main sub-systems, and the "meaning" column reaches into these to tell you more.