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	17332976	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	606,331	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1871	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	10061398	Carmarthenshire AncC
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	AGCEN_AREA_A:total	Cell within nCube N_AGCEN_AREA_A: Total areas of reporting units Dimension Variable Category 1 Total Area (for Farm Census) Total Area Universe: Total area in acres, by agricultural census
Source	AgStat	Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics (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	agcen_cnty	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.