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	17372561	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	622	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1851	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	12866252	Lickerrig IrlPar
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	TOT_POP:now	Cell within nCube N_TOT_POP: Total Population Dimension Variable Category 1 Total Population Current Total Population Universe: All Persons
Table in census reports	IRL1851GEN_COU1	1851 Census of Ireland, General, Table 1 , 'General Table.'
Column in census table	10	Column label from original table:   Persons: TOTAL NUMBER OF MALES AND FEMALES.
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	par_1851_i_general	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.