Vision of Britain | Data Documentation

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head>  <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-5RQZ6X79');</script>  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title> Vision of Britain | Data Documentation </title> <link rev="Headscape" href="https://headscape.co.uk/" title="Headscape Web design: strategy, usability, design, development, marketing." /> <meta name="description" content="A vision of Britain through time..." /> <meta name="keywords" content="Vision of Britain, University of Portsmouth" /> <meta name="version" content="v2.7.2" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="#"> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/basic.css" media="all" />  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/default.css" media="all" />  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/print.css" media="print" />  <style type="text/css" media="screen">   </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/default.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/validate.js"></script>  <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data/dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=N_TOT_POP" /> <style type="text/css"> .listBox dt { width: 150px; } .listBox dd { padding-left: 185px; } </style> </head> <body class="tLanding uniquePageIdentifier">  <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-5RQZ6X79" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>  <div id="header" class="row"> <div id="headerOverlay"> <div class="rowInner"> <img id="printLogo" src="/images/logoPrint.gif" alt="Vision of Britain logo" /> <a id="vobLogo" href="/">A vision of Britain through time</a> <p id="strapLine">A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.<br /> Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.</p> <a id="helpLink" href="/about">Help using this website</a> </div> </div> </div> <div id="navigation" class="row"> <ul class="rowInner"> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/place/">Places</a></li> <li><a href="/atlas/">Statistical atlas</a></li> <li><a href="/maps/">Historical maps</a></li> <li><a href="/census/">Census reports</a></li> <li><a href="/travellers/">Travel writing</a></li> <li><a href="/learning/">Learning zone</a></li> <li class="current"><a href="/data/">Data access</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="breadcrumbs" class="row"> <ul class="rowInner"> <li><a href="../">Home</a></li> <li><a href="../data/#tab04">Data Access</a></li> <li><a href='dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_POP'>T_POP</a></li> <li><a href="#">N_TOT_POP</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="page" class="row"> <div class="rowInner"> <div class="cols16"> <h2> nCube : Total Population </h2> <p> nCubes hold all the statistics presented by the Vision of Britain system, and are defined as combinations of variables. For example, the age-sex tables that appear in most census reports are held as two-dimensional nCubes in which one dimension is a variable categorising sex and the other variable defines a set of age groups. nCubes can have many dimensions, such as age by sex by occupation by cause of death, or just one. </p> <dl class="listBox"> <dt>Identifier:</dt> <dd class="highlight"> <b>N_TOT_POP</b> <div class="clearBoth"></div> </dd> <div class="clearBoth"></div> <dt>Name:</dt> <dd> Total Population </dd> <dt>Type:</dt> <dd> <a href='dds_type_page.jsp?type=N'> nCube (N) </a> <div class="clearBoth"></div> </dd> <dt>Root unit:</dt> <dd> <a href="/unit/10090283;jsessionid=3594C6BE7777C2B8C930696BEF036283"> Great Britain</a> ( <a href="/unit/10090283/cube/N_TOT_POP;jsessionid=3594C6BE7777C2B8C930696BEF036283?add=N">Show data</a> ) <div class="clearBoth"></div> </dd> <dt>Additive:</dt> <dd>No <div class="clearBoth"></div> </dd> <dt>Cube Display:</dt> <dd>Yes <div class="clearBoth"></div> </dd> </dl> <h3> nCube " Total Population " is contained within: </h3> <br /> <p> <strong>Themes, which organise the database into broad topics</strong>: </p> <table class="narrow"> <tr> <th width="33%">Entity ID</th> <th width="67%">Entity Name</th> </tr> <tr class="alternate"> <td><a href='dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=T_POP'> T_POP </a></td> <td>Population</td> </tr> </table> <p> <strong>Universes, definining what the values in datasets add up to</strong>: </p> <table class="narrow"> <tr> <th width="33%">Entity ID</th> <th width="67%">Entity Name</th> </tr> <tr class="alternate"> <td><a href='dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=U_TOT_POP'> U_TOT_POP </a></td> <td>All Persons</td> </tr> </table> <hr /> <br /> <br /> <h3> nCube " Total Population " contains: </h3> <br /> <p> <strong> Variables, defining what data was gathered for </strong>: </p> <table class="narrow"> <tr> <th width="30%">Entity ID</th> <th>Entity Name</th> </tr> <tr class="alternate"> <tr> <td><a href='dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=V_TOT_POP'> V_TOT_POP </a></td> <td>Total Population</td> </tr> </table> <hr /><br/><br/> <h3>Total Population: Data map listing</h3><br/> <p>Each of our datasets, or nCubes, combines one or more variables (Var) each of which consists of a set of categories. The data map lists all the possible combinations of categories. The cell references are the identifiers held in our main table of statistics, recording what each number measures.</p> <center><table> <tr> <th width="35%">Cell Reference</th> <th width="5%">Var</th> <th width="60%">Category Value</th> </tr> <tr class="alternate"> <td valign="top">TOT_POP:prev_30yrs</td> <td align="center" valign="top">1</td> <td><a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=C_TOT_POP_1"> Population 30 years earlier</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">TOT_POP:prev_20yrs</td> <td align="center" valign="top">1</td> <td><a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=C_TOT_POP_2"> Population 20 years earlier</a></td> </tr> <tr class="alternate"> <td valign="top">TOT_POP:prev_10yrs</td> <td align="center" valign="top">1</td> <td><a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=C_TOT_POP_3"> Population 10 years earlier</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">TOT_POP:now</td> <td align="center" valign="top">1</td> <td><a href="dds_entity_page.jsp?ent=C_TOT_POP_4"> Current Total Population</a></td> </tr> </table></center> <br class="clear" /> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footerAds" class="row"> <div class="rowInner"> <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1952517583355649" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1952517583355649" data-ad-slot="0896119656"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </div> <div id="footer" class="row"> <div class="rowInner"> <a href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk" id="footerLinkJ">JISC</a> <a href="https://www.port.ac.uk" id="footerLinkP">Portsmouth</a> <a href="#header" class="backToTop">Back to top</a> <ul> <li><a href="/about/credits">©2009-2024 University of Portsmouth and others</a></li> <li><a href="/about">About this site</a></li> <li><a href="/expertsearch">Expert search</a></li> <li><a href="https://headscape.co.uk">Web design by Headscape </a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>

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