nCube : Able-bodied male paupers: reason for granting outdoor relief

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_PAUPER_OUT_ABM_CAUSE
Name:
Able-bodied male paupers: reason for granting outdoor relief
Type:
nCube (N)
Root unit:
the United Kingdom ( Show data )
Additive:
Yes
Cube Display:
Yes
Text:
From 1884 onwards, The reports of the Local Government Board sub-divided their counts of able-bodied male paupers on outdoor relief into those relieved because of sickness and those relieved "for other causes". The main "other cause" was probably unemployment. Note that able-bodied female paupers were instead categorised into wives and widows.

nCube " Able-bodied male paupers: reason for granting outdoor relief " is contained within:


Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID Entity Name
T_WK Work & Poverty

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

Entity ID Entity Name
U_ABLEBODIED_M_OUT Able-bodied Male Paupers on Outdoor Relief


nCube " Able-bodied male paupers: reason for granting outdoor relief " contains:


Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID Entity Name
V_PAUPER_OUT_ABM_CAUSE Able-bodied male pauper categories: Sick & Other


Able-bodied male paupers: reason for granting outdoor relief: 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
PAUPER_OUT_ABM_CAUSE:sick 1 Sick
PAUPER_OUT_ABM_CAUSE:other 1 Other