1951 Educational Statistics (age at termination of education)

Table ID:

EDU_1951_EW     (1247536)

Contents:

1951 Educational Statistics (age at termination of education)

Approx. number of rows:

1,471

Table type:

Raw Data

Documentation Author:

Humphrey Southall

Geography:

Reporting units are identified by:
   Administrative County
   Local Government District
   Local Government District Type

Chronology:

The data are for the single year 1951.

Sources:

1. The data are taken from tables 25, 'Occupied Population in 3 age sections by 5 terminal ages', for 'Administrative County, County Boroughs, Urban Areas with 50,000 Population or more and Urban Remainder', and 26, 'Occupied Male Population by 5 terminal ages', for 'Urban Areas of Less than 50,000 and Rural Districts'. It is a full transcription of table 26, but a very partial transcription of table 25 which includes data for women, and for two specific age bands: occupied persons under 20, and occupied persons aged 20-24.
2. National totals have been added from Table 44, "Occupied population in 9 Age Sections each classified by 5 TERMINAL EDUCATION AGES", on p.160 of the 1951 General Tables report.

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Notes:

1. NB these data relate to males only, although data on female education was pubished for towns over 50,000.
2. The occupied population includes persons returned as "out of work" but excludes persons returned as "retired".
3. This data covers only England and Wales.
4. This table was originally called edu_1951. It was amended in January 2010 to be edu_1951_ew to reflect more accurately the area covered by the content.
5. The value of cnty_unit is set for all rows except the national total. The national total row has both cnty_name and dist_name set to 'ENGLAND AND WALES', cnty_unit set to null, and g_unit set to the ID number for England and Wales.

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Checking:

1. The data were checked to ensure that figures for individual age groups summed to the stated figure for 'all ages' (see constraint below).
2. The data have been cross-checked against the 1951 age structure data, to ensure that the districts listed are identical.
3. The data have been cross-checked against the 1951 occupational data as summarised in 'occ_1951_ew' to ensure that the sum of 'all_ages' and 'age_ns' is equal to the figure for the total number of occupied males ('tot_occ').
4. The data have been checked to ensure that the sum of all_ages for all individual districts match the reported figure for all_ages for England and Wales.
5. The geographical units have been cross-checked against the GBHGIS administrative unit gazetteer to ensure that all units are correctly identified. Each unit has a unique unit ID assigned to it and this can be used to cross-reference against other data-sets.
6. This data set is now believed to be error free.

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Acknowledgments:

We are extremely grateful to the following:

1. Danny Dorling: These data were transcribed by Danny Dorling and supplied to the database in August 1997 without restrictions.

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Indices:

Index	Type	Column(s) indexed
edu_1951_ew_pkey	Primary key	rec_num

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Constraints:

The table has the following associated constraints:

Constraint	Type	Details
edu_1951_ew_pkey	Primary Key	See details above for primary key index
ck_all_ages_ew	Check	((((((age_u_15 + age_15) + age_16) + age_17_19) + age_20_up) = all_ages))

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Columns within table:

Column	Type	Contents
adm_cnty	Text string (max.len.=44).	Name of Administrative County unit containing the district as it appeared in the original report.
lg_dist	Text string (max.len.=104).	Name of Local Government District unit as it appeared in the original report, i.e. lower case.
lg_type	Text string (max.len.=16).	Status of Local Government District as it appeared in the original report.
cnty_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for container unit (Administrative County).
g_unit	Integer number.	Unique ID number for unit (Local Government District).
g_year	Integer number.	Year Census taken.
im_auth	Text string (max.len.=44).	Immediate authority, in this case the Census.
im_note	Text string (max.len.=44).	Note on Immediate authority, in this case the table number from the Census where the majority of data came from.
all_ages	Integer number.	Total number of occupied persons with stated ages.
age_u_15	Integer number.	Occupied persons who terminated their education before age 15.
age_15	Integer number.	Occupied persons who terminated their education at age 15.
age_16	Integer number.	Occupied persons who terminated their education at age 16.
age_17_19	Integer number.	Occupied persons who terminated their education at ages 17 to 19.
age_20_up	Integer number.	Occupied persons who terminated their education at age 20 or over.
age_ns	Integer number.	Occupied persons whose age was not stated.
rec_num	Integer number.	Unique number identifying row in table.