Variable : House Class (Ireland)

Variables serve as the dimensions of nCubes, and are generally based on the questions on forms such as the census schedule. However, in the aggregate data held in the Vision of Britain system we do not store the individual responses but counts of the number of each kind of response, so variables are made up of categories, such as age groups.

Identifier:

V_HOUS_CLASS_IRL

Name:

House Class (Ireland)

Type:

Variable (V)

Text:

This classification of houses into Classes 1 to 4 by quality was used in the early Irish cesnsues. The 1851 General Report (p. xxiii) explains them as follows: "In the lowest, or fourth class, were comprised all mud cabins having only one room; in the third, a better description of cottage, still built of mud, but varying from two to four rooms and windows; in the second, a good farm-house, or in towns, a house in a small street, having from five to nine rooms and windows; and in the first, all houses of a better description than the preceding classes." Note that when applied to families, the classification was based partly on the classification of the house, but also pn how many families lived in the house, so for example a first class house with four to five families was considered to represent third class house accommodation.

Variable " House Class (Ireland) " is contained within:

Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID	Entity Name
T_HOUS	Housing

Datasets or nCubes, containing the actual data:

Entity ID	Entity Name
N_FAM_HOUS_CLASS_IRL	Inhabited Houses by "Class" (Ireland)
N_HOUS_CLASS_IRL	Inhabited Houses by "Class" (Ireland)

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Variable " House Class (Ireland) " contains:

Categories, defining the values available for each variable :

Entity ID	Entity Name
C_HOUS_CLASS_IRL_1	First Class
C_HOUS_CLASS_IRL_2	Second Class
C_HOUS_CLASS_IRL_3	Third Class
C_HOUS_CLASS_IRL_4	Fourth Class