GB Historical DB

Parish and City Ward level statistics for Scotland taken from the 1961 census

Table ID:
PAR_1961_S     (1252580)
Contents:
Parish and City Ward level statistics for Scotland taken from the 1961 census
Approx. number of rows:
1,410
Table type:
Raw Data
Documentation Author:
Paul Ell
Chronology:
The data are for the single year 1961.

Sources:

  1. A full transcription of the 1961 Scottish equivalent of the parish level table in the rest of Great Britain - Table 3A - Acreage, population, private households and dwellings for - "Administrative County, Districts of County, County Council Electoral Divisions New Towns, Burghs -Large and Small" and for -"County of City, City Wards".

Notes:

  1. These data were originally input by the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at the Queen's University of Belfast.
  2. Data for the four Scottish cities and the county of Selkirk were input by Paula Aucott at the University of Portsmouth in January 2015.
  3. The following values of area_type appear in the table and have been systematically matched to the AUO:
    • County (32 areas).
    • City (4 areas): Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow.
    • Large Burgh (20 areas)
    • Small Burgh (172 areas)
    • Landward (2 areas)
    • District of County (184 areas).
    The following values of area_type appear in the table within the units listed above and have not been matched to the AUO:
    • City Wards (84 areas)
    • Burgh Wards (237 areas)
    • County Council Electoral Division (CCED) (934 areas).
  4. The figures for New Towns have not been transcribed because they are included in the other figures given for the county. Total figures have only been transcribed for the cities and occasional other units.
  5. Currently there are no burgh wards or CCEDs in the AUO therefore these rows cannot currently be matched and assigned g_unit values.
  6. While there are 1951 Scottish City wards in the AUO, they are not exactly the same as 1961. The city ward matching has been disabled until it is possible to add ward changes to the AUO.
  7. The data had rows for two Small Burghs without a name given for the burgh. By a process of comparison with other tables and the AUO these rows have been identified as Gourock in Renfrew and St Andrews in Fife. These should be double-checked when it is possible to look at a physical copy of the published table.
  8. Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Burgh in Midlothian is recorded in two rows, separating out Bonnyrigg and Lasswade. In the AUO both these burghs were abolished to create the merged burgh in 1930, but they obviously continued in some form. This needs further investigation.

Checking:

  1. This dataset has been verified in a number of ways. All numeric fields, with the exception of pop_1951, h_hold and dwelling have been checked by summing the data and comparing the sums with sums provided in the original report.
  2. All name fields were cross-referenced against the Administrative Unit Ontology to verify the name spellings and to add in unit identifiers. Mis-matches that were transcription errors were corrected from scans of the originals.

Indices:

IndexTypeColumn(s) indexed
par_1961_s_pkey Primary key rec_num
par_1961_s_idx Unique sco_cnty, sco_area, sco_dist, rec_num

Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

ConstraintTypeDetails
par_1961_s_pkey Primary Key See details above for primary key index


Columns within table:

ColumnTypeContents
sco_cnty Text string (max.len.=54). Name of County as given in original report
cnty_type Text string (max.len.=24). Kind of County, either "county" or "county of city"
sco_dist Text string (max.len.=154). Name of District as given in original report
sco_dist_type Text string (max.len.=24). Kind of District, either "Burgh", "District of County", "County Landward" or "New Town".
sco_area Text string (max.len.=254). Name of County Council Electoral Division or wards
sco_area_type Text string (max.len.=24). Status of place, whether it is an electoral division or ward
cnty_unit Integer number. Unique ID value for Scottish County from the AUO
dist_unit Integer number. Unique ID value for Scottish District from the AUO
g_unit Integer number. Unique ID value for smallest unit, currently the district.
area Integer number. Acreage
pop_1951 Integer number. Total population 1951
pop_1961 Integer number. Total population 1961
ma_1961 Integer number. Male population 1961
fe_1961 Integer number. Female population 1961
pop_den Floating point number. The population density in persons per acre in 1961
h_hold Integer number. The number of private families in 1961
pop_hou Floating point number. Population in private families in 1961
dwelling Integer number. The number of structurally separate dwellings occupied in 1961
ro_occ Integer number. Rooms unoccupied
den_occ Floating point number. Persons per room 1961
den_2up Floating point number. Percentage of persons living at more than 2 per room
notes Long text. Comments.
rec_num Integer number. Sequence number to keep rows in original order.