nCube : Social Status, based on 1831 occupational statistics

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.

Identifier:

N_SOC1831

Name:

Social Status, based on 1831 occupational statistics

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

Great Britain ( Show data )

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

The 1831 census provides information, down to parish-level, on the occupations of males aged over 20 using nine categories. Here we reorganise this information to provide a crude measure of social status, based more on contemporary ideas than on modern definitions of social class: "middling sorts" combines small farmers not employing labourers with both masters and skilled workers in urban manufacturing and handicrafts.

nCube " Social Status, based on 1831 occupational statistics " is contained within:

Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID	Entity Name
T_SOC	Social Structure

Universes, definining what the values in datasets add up to:

Entity ID	Entity Name
U_ADULT_M	Adult Males

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nCube " Social Status, based on 1831 occupational statistics " contains: