nCube : Numbers of Sane & Lunatic Paupers

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_SANITY_SCOT

Name:

Numbers of Sane & Lunatic Paupers

Type:

nCube (N)

Root unit:

Scotland ( Show data )

Additive:

Yes

Cube Display:

Yes

Text:

From 1896 onwards, Scottish poor law statistics divide Paupers into Sane and Lunatics. "Sane" covered those who were physically ill, elderly of otherwise needing relief, but not mentally ill.

nCube "Numbers of Sane & Lunatic Paupers" 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 Sane & Lunatic Paupers" contains:

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

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Numbers of Sane & Lunatic Paupers: 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.