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	17915763	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	8,180	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1831	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	10330245	Whitfield CP/AP
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	AREA_ACRES:total	Cell within nCube N_AREA_ACRES: Area (acres) Dimension Variable Category 1 Area (acres) Area Universe: Total area in acres
Table in census reports	GB1831ABS_M[1]	1831 Census of Great Britain, Abstract of answers, Table [1] , 'Population Abstract'
Column in census table	1	Column label from original table:   Area: English Statute Acres
Credits	GATLEYD_par_1831	Contributor(s): David Allan Gatley (School of Social Sciences, University of Staffordshire). 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	par_1831_gb	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.