nCube : Total areas of reporting units

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_AREA_A
Name:
Total areas of reporting units
Type:
nCube (N)
Root unit:
Great Britain ( Show data )
Additive:
No
Cube Display:
Yes
Cube Download:
Yes
Text:
Although the Agricultural Census and similar surveys, like the 1801 Crop Returns, reported on broadly the same units as the Census of Population, they often either provide or need different overall areas for the units, which are recorded here. Areas from the Agricultural Census may be different because that survey usually included the whole of a farm within the parish in which the farmhouse was located even if parts of the farm were in other parishes. The 1801 Crop Returns did not list total parish acreages and neither did the 1801 Census of Population, so we use the 1831 acreage if available, or failing that the 1851 acreage; in both cases these should be the overall acreages of mother parishes, including component townships, etc. For counties in 1801, we include only the acreages of parishes which are included in the returns and for which we have been able to find an acreage. NB some of these areas come from the farm surveys themselves, but others are derived values computed from other sources; in either case, they are the most appropriate areas to use as divisors when working with farm survey data, if rates are to be computed relative to the total area of the unit rather than the farmed area. Where totals are available including and excluding areas of water, the figure for the unit area excluding water is held here.

Data available for download:

Data for these unit types and dates are available to UK Federation members for download — select one:

Unit Type Date Data Count

1801 2

1866 3

1869 3

1870 1

1871 6

1877 6

1881 3

1884 1

1885 5

1891 4

1900 3

1901 5

1910 3

1920 3

1930 3

1931 6

1940 3

1951 3

1960 3

1961 6

1970 3

1920 50

1930 48

1931 61

1940 48

1951 47

1960 45

1961 59

1970 41

1801 38

1869 52

1871 52

1877 52

1885 52

1891 52

1900 41

1901 53

1910 41

1871 32

1870 33

1871 33

1877 31

1884 31

1885 31

1901 33

1931 33

1961 33

1869 3

1871 3

1877 3

1885 3

1891 3

1900 3

1901 3

1910 3

1801 3758

nCube " Total areas of reporting units " is contained within:


Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

Entity ID Entity Name
T_LAND Agriculture and Land Use

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

Entity ID Entity Name
U_AGCEN_AREA_A Total area in acres, by agricultural census


nCube " Total areas of reporting units " contains:


Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID Entity Name
V_AGCEN_AREA_A Total Area (for Farm Census)


Total areas of reporting units: 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_AREA_A:total 1 Total Area