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	3870098	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	9,051	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1951	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	12837483	Dumfries DoC
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	HOUS_DENSITY_GEN_HIGH:under_2	Cell within nCube N_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN_HIGH: Housing Density (Scottish categories) Dimension Variable Category 1 Persons per Room 2 or less Universe: All Households
Table in census reports	S1951COU_M21	1951 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 21 , 'Houses: Population by number enumerated per room', for 'Counties, Districts of Counties, Cities, Wards of Cities, Burghs, Districts of Counties, Landwards of Counties'
Column in census table	2	Column label from original table:   Persons living (per Room): Not more than 2
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	hous_1951_s	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.