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	1182949	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	-73	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1901	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	10254036	Elmsett CP/AP
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	POP_CHANGE:over_10yrs	Cell within nCube N_POP_CHANGE: Population Change Dimension Variable Category 1 Population Change Change over 10 years Universe: Change in number of Persons
Table in census reports	EW1901COU_M12	1901 Census of England and Wales, County Report, Table 12 , 'Registration County, Districts, and Sub-Districts, with their Constituent Civil Parishes - Area; Houses and Population 1891 and 1901, and Separate Occupiers 1901'
Status	D	Derived. This usually indicates that the value was generated from raw data using the mappings defined in the DDS. They are sometimes suppressed from table listings.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	par_1901_ew	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.