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:

England and Wales ( Show data )

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Cube Download:

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.

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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:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_SOC1831	1831 Occupations grouped by Status

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Social Status, based on 1831 occupational statistics: 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
SOC1831:emp	1	Employers and Professionals
SOC1831:mid	1	Middling Sorts
SOC1831:lab	1	Labourers and Servants
SOC1831:other	1	Others