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	16619216	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	112	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	January 1st, 1860 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	10139946	Greenwich RegD/PLU
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	BIRTH_LEGIT:ill	Cell within nCube N_BIRTH_LEGIT: Births by legitimacy Dimension Variable Category 1 Legitimacy Illegitimate Universe: All Births
Source	RG_AR	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) ,
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	vital_ew_reg_ann	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.