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	14246523	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	408	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	January 1st, 1851 to December 31st, 1860	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	10024985	Dorset RegC
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	CoD_DS_1850s:female/35_44/phth	Cell within nCube N_CoD_DS_1850s: Decennial Cause of Death by Age & Sex Dimension Variable Category 1 Sex Female 2 Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 85 35 to 44 3 Cause of Death (RG 1850s DS definition) Phthisis Universe: All deaths
Source	RG_DS	Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office) ,
Credits	WOODSR_cause_ew_reg_dec	Contributor(s): Robert Woods (Department of Geography, University of Liverpool). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes.
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	cause_ew_reg_dec	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.