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	2316578	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	38	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1901	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	10174764	Reading RegD/PLU
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	AGESEX_100UP_X:male/85_89	Cell within nCube N_AGESEX_100UP_X: Age & Sex Structure in 5-year bands to age 100 (extra detail for ages 10-20) Dimension Variable Category 1 Sex Male 2 Age in five year bands to age 100 (extra details for ages 10-20) 85 to 89 Universe: All Persons
Table in census reports	EW1901COU_M26	1901 Census of England and Wales, County Report, Table 26 , 'Ages of Persons, Males and Females, in the Registration County, and in Registration Districts, 1901'
Column in census table	31	Column label from original table:   85--
Row in census table	2	Row label from original table:   M.
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	age_reg_ew_1901	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.