GB Historical DB

Parish-level statistics for England and Wales from the 1951 census

Table ID:
PAR_1951_EW     (1252554)
Contents:
Parish-level statistics for England and Wales from the 1951 census
Approx. number of rows:
16,618
Table type:
Raw Data
Documentation Author:
Humphrey Southall
Geography:
Reporting units are identified by:
   Administrative County
   Local Government District
   Local Government District Type
   Civil Parish
   Parish- or sub-Parish-level Unit
   Original name of parish-level unit
Chronology:
The data are for the single year 1951.

Sources:

  1. This is a full transcription of Table 3 in the County Reports of the 1951 census, "Acreage, population, private households and dwellings - Administrative County, County Boroughs, Municipal Boroughs, Urban Districts, Rural Districts, Wards and Civil Parishes".
  2. The printed table does not include footnotes.

Notes:

  1. These data were input by the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen's University, Belfast.
  2. This table was originally called par_1951 and was a combination of the English and Welsh data. This was amended in February 2010 and is now called par_1951_ew to reflect more accurately the area covered by the content.
  3. As yet these data do not contain ward ID numbers because they have not been tracked through time in the AUO.
  4. The New Town of Bracknell is the only one present in this table and it has been matched at district level to the AUO. It contains parts of four Berkshire parishes: Binfield, Easthampstead, Warfield and Winkfield. These parishes all have separate rows within Easthampstead RD which do not indicate they were split. It has therefore been assumed the individual parish rows are for whole parishes and the New Town rows represent sub-totals. For the time being this means the g_unit value is not assigned. This needs checking in the notes for the original table.

Checking:

  1. This dataset has been verified in a number of ways. All numeric fields, with the exception of pop_den, den_occ and den_2up have been checked by summing the OCR'd data and comparing the sums with sums provided in the original report. Remaining numeric fields were verified using cross checks.
  2. There were further checks of the numeric data after loading to ensure accuracy. The reported population totals were compared against the sum of the male and female populations. Swadlincote ward in Swadlincote parish in Swadlincote UD in Derbyshire, Framingham Pigot parish in Forehow and Henstead RD in Norfolk and Middlezoy parish in Bridgwater RD in Somerset were the only mismatches unable to be resolved. The Norfolk error needs confirming as the copy is unreadable.
  3. The district names, types and number per county were checked against the age_lgd table for 1951 and h_amen_1951_ew for consistency. Only the new towns of Cwmbran in Monmouthshire and Corby in Northamptonshire were flagged, this is because they have two sets of figures in the h_amen_1951_ew table, one for the UD and one for the new town.
  4. The reported population density was confirmed against total population divided by area. The remaining mismatches unable to be resolved are: Marbury parish, Northwich RD, Cheshire, St Michael Rural parish, St. Albans RD, Hertfordshire, Stanwell ward in Stanwell parish, Staines UD and Tokyngton ward in Wembley parish, Wembley MB, both in Middlesex and Thornton in Craven parish, Skipton RD in Yorkshire West Riding. Those with a very small area that mismatched are both in Yorkshire East Riding, they are Bull Fort in Holderness RD and Albert ward in Sculcoates parish in Kingston upon Hull CB. The ward of Farringdon without in Land common to inner and middle temples in the City of London CC also mismatched but this is probably due to the shared information with the parishes of Inner and Middle Temples in the original table.
  5. The reported occupation density was compared against total population divided by room occupancy. Those districts with zero areas were checked to be accurate.
  6. The reported housing density was compared against the total population divided by the number of rooms occupied. Bocking North ward in Braintree and Bocking parish in Braintree and Bocking UD in Essex, Tidenham parish in Lydney RD in Gloucestershire and Billingley parish in Hemsworth RD in Yorkshire West Riding were the remaining mismatches unable to be resolved. The last of these needs confirming as the copy is unreadable.
  7. The geographical units have been cross-checked against the GBHGIS administrative unit gazetteer to ensure that all units are correctly identified. Each unit has a unique unit ID assigned to it and this can be used to cross-reference against other data-sets.

Indices:

IndexTypeColumn(s) indexed
par_1951_ew_pkey Primary key rec_num
par_1951_ew_dist_idx Unique dist_name, lg_type, adm_cnty, rec_num
par_1951_ew_g_unit_idx Unique g_unit, rec_num
par_1951_ew_par_idx Unique par_name, dist_name, lg_type, adm_cnty, rec_num
par_1951_ew_ward_idx Unique lg_ward, par_name, dist_name, lg_type, adm_cnty, rec_num

Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

ConstraintTypeDetails
par_1951_ew_pkey Primary Key See details above for primary key index


Columns within table:

ColumnTypeContents
adm_cnty Text string (max.len.=44). Name of Administrative County unit as it appeared in the original report.
dist_name Text string (max.len.=104). Name of Local Government District unit as it appeared in the original report.
lg_dist Text string (max.len.=64). Cleaned up name of Local Government District.
lg_type Text string (max.len.=16). Type of Local Government District.
par_name Text string (max.len.=304). Name of parish or similar unit as given in original table.
civ_par Text string (max.len.=204). Cleaned up name of parish level unit.
lg_ward Text string (max.len.=204). Name of Ward as given in original table.
cnty_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for administrative county unit.
dist_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for local government district unit.
par_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for parish level unit.
ward_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for local government ward unit, currently unpopulated.
g_unit Integer number. Unique ID number for smallest administrative spatial unit, currently all parishes.
part_of Text string (max.len.=5). Set to "p" to indicate the parish is split, normally between one or more Wards.
area Integer number. Area of parish-level unit.
pop_1931 Integer number. The population in 1931
pop_1951 Integer number. The population in 1951
ma_1951 Integer number. Total number of males in 1951
fe_1951 Integer number. Total number of females in 1951
pop_den Floating point number. The population density in persons per acre in 1951.
h_hold Integer number. The number of private families in 1951
pop_hou Integer number. Population in private families in 1951.
dwelling Integer number. The number of structurally separate dwellings occupied in 1951.
ro_occ Integer number. Rooms occupied in 1951.
den_occ Floating point number. Persons per room in 1951.
den_2up Floating point number. Percentage of persons living at more than 2 per room.
notes Text string (max.len.=4004). Notes given in the printed table or added to assist users.
rec_num Integer number. Unique number identifying row in table.