DDS Entity Definition: T_HOUS

Name:

Housing

Identifier:

T_HOUS

Type:

Theme (T)

Text:

The first census to report on how well people were housed was that of 1891, but the only statistics gathered were on the number of rooms and the number of people in each household. From 1951 onwards, more questions were asked about 'amenities', meaning specific facilities that households either possessed or had shared access to.

One interesting measure of progress is the change in the amenities covered by the census. In 1951, these were piped water, a cooking stove, a kitchen sink, a 'water closet' meaning a flush toilet, and a 'fixed bath', as distinct from a tin bath hung on the wall between uses. In 2001, the list of key amenities was shorter: central heating, and 'sole use of bath/shower and toilet'. Differences in what information was recorded by each census complicate comparisons over time, and none of our three measures are entirely consistent.

Theme "T_HOUS" is contained within:

Databases:

Entity ID	Entity Name
DB	VoB Database

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Theme "T_HOUS" contains:

Rates :

Entity ID	Entity Name
R_HOUS_CON	Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses
R_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN	Percentage of Households with more than one person per room
R_HOUS_AMENITY_GEN_no_wc	Percentage of Households without sole use of a WC
R_HOUS_AMENITY_GEN_all_am	Percentage of Households with All Amenities

nCubes :

Entity ID	Entity Name
N_HOUSES	Total Houses
N_HOUSE_OCCUPANCY	House Occupancy
N_PREV_HOUSE_OCCUPANCY_10YRS	House Occupancy 10 years earlier
N_PREV_HOUSE_OCCUPANCY_20YRS	House Occupancy 20 years earlier
N_ROOMS	Total Rooms
N_ROOM_OCCUPANCY	Rooms Occupied
N_HOUSEHOLDS	Total Households
N_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN	Housing Density, redistricted
N_HOUS_AMENITY_GEN	Housing Amenity, redistricted

Variables :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_HOUSES	Total Houses
V_HOUSE_OCCUPANCY	Housing Occupancy
V_ROOMS	Total Rooms
V_HOUSEHOLDS	Total Households
V_HOUS_DENSITY_GEN	Persons per Room
V_HOUS_AMENITY_GEN	Housing amenities, simplified