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	12413382	This number locates the particular value within the data table; it is like an accession number in a conventional library.
Value	888	This is the data value itself.
Date(s) covered	1881	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	10190680	Stirlingshire ScoCnty
Meaning (DDS cell reference)	OCC_ORDER1881:male/5	Cell within nCube N_OCC_ORDER1881: Occupation data classified into the 24 1881 'Orders', plus sex Dimension Variable Category 1 Sex Male 2 1881 Occupational Orders Commercial Occupations Universe: All Workers
Table in census reports	S1881AGE_M[32]	1881 Census of Scotland, Ages, Table [32] , 'Occupations of Males and Females at different Ages in each of the Counties of Scotland'
Column in census table	3	Column label from original table:   MALES: Total at all Ages.
Row in census table	79	Row label from original table:   5. COMMERCIAL OCCUPATIONS
Status	P	Public. Visible in both graphics and tables.
Precision	E	Exact
Created by	occ_1881_s	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.