nCube : Able-bodied paupers by gender & age

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_ABLEBODIED_AGESEX
Name:
Able-bodied paupers by gender & age
Type:
nCube (N)
Root unit:
the United Kingdom ( Show data )
Additive:
Yes
Cube Display:
Yes
Text:
The exact meaning of the term 'able-bodied', as used in the Poor Law system, is a matter of some controversy but is generally understood to exclude the aged and infirm, and 'lunatics', but to include large numbers who were temporarily ill. The system's reports consistently divide those receiving relief into Men, Women and Children.

nCube " Able-bodied paupers by gender & age " is contained within:


Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID Entity Name
T_WK Work & Poverty

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

Entity ID Entity Name
U_ABLEBODIED Able-bodied Paupers



nCube " Able-bodied paupers by gender & age " contains:


Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID Entity Name
V_PAUPER_AGESEX Pauper categories: Men, Women & Children



Able-bodied paupers by gender & age: 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
ABLEBODIED_AGESEX:men 1 Men
ABLEBODIED_AGESEX:women 1 Women
ABLEBODIED_AGESEX:children 1 Children