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	3371574	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	2,398	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1939	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	10215493	Lancaster MB
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	AGESEX_65UP_10YRS:male/55_64	Cell within nCube N_AGESEX_65UP_10YRS: Age & Sex Structure in approximate 10 year bands Dimension Variable Category 1 Sex Male 2 Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 65 55 to 64¾ Universe: All Civilians
Table in census reports	UKI1939POP_M3A	1939 National Registration of United Kingdom and Isle of Man, Population summary, Table 3 A, 'Population by Sex and Year of Birth (and Age) in Great Britain and the Isle of Man. England and Wales - Counties, Boroughs, Urban and Rural Districts'
Column in census table	10	Column label from original table not available.
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	age_1939_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.