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	11938744	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	11,059	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1971	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	10057322	Suffolk Coastal District
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	SOCIAL_GRADE:C	Cell within nCube N_SOCIAL_GRADE: Social Grade Dimension Variable Category 1 Social Grade (simplified) Grade C Universe: All Males of Working Age
Table in census reports	GB1971ECN5_M37	1971 Census of Great Britain, Economic activity Vol.5, Table 37 , 'Males by area of usual residence and socio-economic class (10% sample)', for 'GB, EW, S, Regions, con, AC, LAA'
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	S10	From 10% sample
Created by	soc_redistricted	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.