nCube : Numbers of Paupers & Dependents

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_PAUPER_DEP_SCOT

Name:

Numbers of Paupers & Dependents

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

Scotland ( Show data )

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

From 1855 onwards, Scottish poor law statistics list the numbers of "Dependents" as well as numbers of Paupers, both being included in our overall count of numbers receiving relief.

nCube "Numbers of Paupers & Dependents" 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 "Numbers of Paupers & Dependents" contains:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

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Numbers of Paupers & Dependents: 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.