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	2359516	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	2,585	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1851	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	10556387	Drypool SubD
Meaning (DDS cell reference)		No DDI metadata is held for this value, so it will be used only in reconstructions of source tables.
Table in census reports	GB1851AGE_M[1]	1851 Census of Great Britain, Ages, Table [1] , 'Ages of the People'
Column in census table	2	Column label from original table:   ALL AGES: Males and Females.
Row in census table	1	Row label from original table:   M.
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	age_sub_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.