nCube : Farmland Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census

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_AGCEN_FARM

Name:

Farmland Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

the United Kingdom ( Show data )

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

The Agricultural Census was not primarily a land use survey, but it did record the area of 'Arable Land' in each farm, and the area of 'Permanent Grass'. The latter was sometimes sub-divided into grass 'for Hay' and 'not for Hay'. The Scottish Farm Census in 1961 classified grassland not into 'Permanent' and 'Rotation' but into grassland aged over and under 7 years old; we treat the latter as being equivalent to 'rotation', and therefore as arable. We do not include the area of 'Rough Grazings' here as it was not recorded for all dates.

nCube " Farmland Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census " is contained within:

Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID	Entity Name
T_LAND	Agriculture & Land Use

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

Entity ID	Entity Name
U_LAND_AGCEN_FARM	Total farmed area, in acres

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nCube " Farmland Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census " contains:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_AGCEN_FARM	Agricultural Census Categories for Farmland

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Farmland Use, as reported by the Agricultural Census: 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
AGCEN_FARM:grass	1	Permanent Grass
AGCEN_FARM:arable	1	Arable