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	17716641	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	498	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1861	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	12868327	Rahan IrlPar
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	HOUSE_OCCUPANCY:occup	Cell within nCube N_HOUSE_OCCUPANCY: House Occupancy Dimension Variable Category 1 Housing Occupancy Occupied Universe: All Houses
Table in census reports	IRL1861POP_M[1]	1861 Census of Ireland, Population summary, Table [1] , 'Area, population and number of houses'
Column in census table	9	Column label from original table:   Houses: In 1861: Inhabited
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	par_1861_i	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.