nCube : Literacy

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_READ_WRITE_5UP

Name:

Literacy

Type:

nCube (N)

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

Ability to read and write for persons aged five and up. This nCube was defined to simplify the gendered literacy data provided by the Irish census in 1851.

nCube " Literacy " is contained within:

Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID	Entity Name
T_LEARN	Learning & Language

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

Entity ID	Entity Name
U_TOT_5UP	All Persons aged 5 & upwards

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nCube " Literacy " contains:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_READ_WRITE	Whether able to read & write

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Literacy: 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.

Cell Reference	Var	Category Value
READ_WRITE_5UP:both	1	Able to read & write
READ_WRITE_5UP:read	1	Able to read but not write
READ_WRITE_5UP:neither	1	Unable to read or write