nCube : Able-bodied paupers by gender

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

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

the United Kingdom ( Show data )

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

The exact meaning of 'able-bodied', as used in the Poor Law system, is controversial, but is generally understood to exclude the aged and infirm, and 'lunatics', while including large numbers who were temporarily ill. The reports consistently list numbers of Men and Women.

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

Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:

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

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nCube "Able-bodied paupers by gender" contains:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

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Able-bodied paupers by gender: 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.