nCube : Groupings of Political Parties

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_POL_PARTY_GROUP

Name:

Groupings of Political Parties

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

Great Britain ( Show data )

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

The election result data we hold includes over two hundred party labels, so we have simplified them to these seven simple categories. Of course, most candidates in most elections, and almost every candidate who won, was standing for one of the main parties, but an enormous range of labels have been used by one or two candidates. These groupings have been defined based almost entirely on the party labels, rather than detailed research into party policies, but including words like 'Labour' or 'Conservative' in your party label says a lot about where you stand, and even more about the people voting for you. 'Left' means broadly speaking candidates to the left of the Liberal or Labour parties, 'Right' candidates to the right of the Conservatives. 'Nationalist' means any kind of nationalist, even for the Isle of Wight.

nCube " Groupings of Political Parties " is contained within:

Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID	Entity Name
T_POL	Political Life

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

Entity ID	Entity Name
U_VOTES_CAST	Number of votes cast in an election

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nCube " Groupings of Political Parties " contains:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_POL_PARTY_GROUP	Groupings of Political Parties

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Groupings of Political Parties: Data map listing

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.

Cell Reference	Var	Category Value
POL_PARTY_GROUP:con	1	Conservative
POL_PARTY_GROUP:lab	1	Labour
POL_PARTY_GROUP:lib	1	Liberal
POL_PARTY_GROUP:left	1	Left
POL_PARTY_GROUP:right	1	Right
POL_PARTY_GROUP:nat	1	Nationalist
POL_PARTY_GROUP:other	1	Other