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	12600532	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	31,740	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	October 8th, 1959	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	12754085	Norwich North BCon
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	VOTERS_TOT:vote	Cell within nCube N_VOTERS_TOT: Persons Voting or Not Voting Dimension Variable Category 1 Numbers of persons voting or not voting Voting Universe: Persons registered to vote
Source	Craig1950	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1970 (Chichester: Political Reference Publications, 1971) Within copyright. Permission granted to project.
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	CPC	Calculated from percentage
Created by	votes_1832_on	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.