Housing Statistics (persons per room) from the 1931 Census.

Table ID:

H_DENS_1931_EW     (1250712)

Contents:

Housing Statistics (persons per room) from the 1931 Census.

Approx. number of rows:

1,801

Table type:

Raw Data

Documentation Author:

Humphrey Southall

Geography:

Reporting units are identified by:
   Administrative County
   Local Government District
   Local Government District Type

Chronology:

The data are for the single year 1931.

Sources:

1. This table is a transcription of table 11 ('Private Families, classified by size of family, rooms occupied, and density of occupation. Administrative county, county boroughs, municipal boroughs, urban and rural districts') in the individual county reports of the 1931 census. All columns were entered apart from the number of private families occupying 5, 6 to 7, 8 to 9, and 10 or more rooms.
2. National totals for England and Wales were added in June 2017 by Humphrey Southall, from Table 6, "Private families, classified by size of family, rooms occupied, and density of occupation (England and Wales, urban and rural aggregates, regions and London A. C.)", in Housing report and tables, England and Wales, 1931, p.20. This has an identical structure to Table 11 in the County Reports.

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Notes:

1. This table contains data for each local government district in England and Wales, each with g_unit set to the district's ID and cnty_unit set to the ID for the containing county, so county totals should be correct. It also contains:
   • A national total for England and Wales, which has lg_dist set to 'ENGLAND AND WALES', adm_cnty, lg_type and cnty_unit set to null, and g_unit set to the unit ID for England and Wales.
   • A row for the Civil Parish of Folkestone next Sandgate, which had a complex relationship with the towns of Folkestone and Sandgate, but needs to be excluded to avoid double-counting, and consequently has g_unit set to null.
2. This table is similar to the 1901 table but is based around the concept of the 'private family' rather than the 'tenement.' The exact definition of a 'private family' is not given but a note says that it is included in Table 3 of the 1931 printed reports.
3. The header information on the table notes that 'Where more than one family are enumerated within a structurally separate dwelling, each is classified according to the rooms it severally occupies and not to the total number of rooms in the dwelling. For this purpose rooms shared by more than one family are excluded, as are sculleries or bathrooms, etc., each family being classified to the next lower integral number of rooms occupied, save in the exceptional case of a family housed in a portion of a room only when it is classified as living in 1 room'. It goes on to note that this may result in differences when comparing the number of rooms from this table to the number of rooms from other tables.
4. The 'over_1', 'over_1_5' and 'over_2' fields were computed by us from the data. Our calculations assume that tenements occupied by '15 or more' persons contained 15 people, and are therefore obviously underestimates.
5. The field 'tot_u5' was not transcribed, but computed from the totals for families occupying, 2, 3 and 4 rooms after the data had been loaded.
6. This table was originally called hous1931 and was a combination of the English and Welsh data. This was amended in February 2010 and is now called h_dens_1931_ew to reflect more accurately the area covered by the content.
7. In March 2021 the name of the table was updated from hous_1931_ew to be h_dens_1931_ew to more accurately reflect the content.

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Checking:

1. As the data were loaded, the total for each number of private families was checked against the sum of the number of private families occupying that number of rooms with 1 person, with 2 etc., (i.e. r1_tot was compared with r1_p1+r1_p2...r1_p15up). These data should be substantially free from error.
2. The 'tot_pfam' field was checked against the 'rooms' and 'av_den' fields as the data were entered and again should be error free.

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Indices:

Index	Type	Column(s) indexed
h_dens_1931_ew_pkey	Primary key	rec_num
h_dens_1931_ew_g_unit_idx	Unique	g_unit, rec_num
h_dens_1931_ew_idx		adm_cnty, lg_dist, lg_type, rec_num

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Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

Constraint	Type	Details
h_dens_1931_ew_pkey	Primary Key	See details above for primary key index

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Columns within table:

Column	Type	Contents
adm_cnty	Text string (max.len.=44).	Name of Administrative County unit as it appeared in the original report.
lg_dist	Text string (max.len.=64).	Name of Local Government District unit as it appeared in the original report.
lg_type	Text string (max.len.=16).	Type of Local Government District.
cnty_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for county unit.
g_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for local government district unit.
part_of	Text string (max.len.=5).	A 'P' in this column indicates that data for only part of the place is recorded. It may be that another part is recorded in a different county.
tot_u5	Integer number.	Total number of private families living in less than 5 rooms (derived from r1_tot+r2_tot+r_3tot+r4_tot).
r1_p1	Integer number.	Number of 1 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p2	Integer number.	Number of 2 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p3	Integer number.	Number of 3 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p4	Integer number.	Number of 4 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p5	Integer number.	Number of 5 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p6	Integer number.	Number of 6 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p7	Integer number.	Number of 7 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p8	Integer number.	Number of 8 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p9	Integer number.	Number of 9 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p10	Integer number.	Number of 10 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p11	Integer number.	Number of 11 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p12	Integer number.	Number of 12 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p13	Integer number.	Number of 13 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p14	Integer number.	Number of 14 person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_p15up	Integer number.	Number of 15 or more person private families occupying 1 room.
r1_tot	Integer number.	Total number of private families occupying 1 room.
r2_p1	Integer number.	Number of 1 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p2	Integer number.	Number of 2 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p3	Integer number.	Number of 3 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p4	Integer number.	Number of 4 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p5	Integer number.	Number of 5 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p6	Integer number.	Number of 6 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p7	Integer number.	Number of 7 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p8	Integer number.	Number of 8 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p9	Integer number.	Number of 9 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p10	Integer number.	Number of 10 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p11	Integer number.	Number of 11 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p12	Integer number.	Number of 12 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p13	Integer number.	Number of 13 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p14	Integer number.	Number of 14 person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_p15up	Integer number.	Number of 15 or more person private families occupying 2 rooms.
r2_tot	Integer number.	Total number of private families occupying 2 rooms.
r3_p1	Integer number.	Number of 1 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p2	Integer number.	Number of 2 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p3	Integer number.	Number of 3 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p4	Integer number.	Number of 4 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p5	Integer number.	Number of 5 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p6	Integer number.	Number of 6 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p7	Integer number.	Number of 7 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p8	Integer number.	Number of 8 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p9	Integer number.	Number of 9 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p10	Integer number.	Number of 10 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p11	Integer number.	Number of 11 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p12	Integer number.	Number of 12 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p13	Integer number.	Number of 13 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p14	Integer number.	Number of 14 person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_p15up	Integer number.	Number of 15 or more person private families occupying 3 rooms.
r3_tot	Integer number.	Total number of private families occupying 3 rooms.
r4_p1	Integer number.	Number of 1 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p2	Integer number.	Number of 2 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p3	Integer number.	Number of 3 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p4	Integer number.	Number of 4 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p5	Integer number.	Number of 5 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p6	Integer number.	Number of 6 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p7	Integer number.	Number of 7 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p8	Integer number.	Number of 8 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p9	Integer number.	Number of 9 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p10	Integer number.	Number of 10 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p11	Integer number.	Number of 11 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p12	Integer number.	Number of 12 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p13	Integer number.	Number of 13 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p14	Integer number.	Number of 14 person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_p15up	Integer number.	Number of 15 or more person private families occupying 4 rooms.
r4_tot	Integer number.	Total number of private families occupying 4 rooms.
tot_pfam	Integer number.	The total number of private families
pop_pfam	Integer number.	The total population in private families
rooms	Integer number.	The total number of occupied rooms.
av_den	Floating point number.	The average number of persons per room.
pop_o3	Integer number.	The population living at over 3 persons per room
pop_3_2	Integer number.	The population living at between 3 and over 2 persons per room.
pop_2_15	Integer number.	The population living at between 2 and over 1.5 persons per room.
pop_15_1	Integer number.	The population living at between 1.5 and over 1.0 persons per room.
over_1	Floating point number.	Number of occupants of tenements of 4 rooms or less with more than 1 occupants per room. (derived value)
over_1_5	Floating point number.	Number of occupants of tenements of 4 rooms or less with more than 1.5 occupants per room. (derived value)
over_2	Floating point number.	Number of occupants of tenements of 4 rooms or less with more than 2 occupants per room. (derived value)
notes	Text string (max.len.=1004).	Comments (generally appearing as footnotes to the original table and mostly concerning boundary changes).
rec_num	Integer number.	Unique number identifying row in table.