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Population counts by ethnic group
Description
Ethnicity data for England and Wales from the 2011 Census. Each row in the data set gives population counts for a small area census Output Area (OA). The census geography is hierarchical: OAs group into Lower Level Super Output Areas (LSOAs), which group into Middle Level Super Output Areas (MSOAs), which group into Local Authority Districts (LADs) and then into Government Regions (RGNs). These groupings are included in the data.
Usage
ethnicities
Format
A data.frame with 20 columns:
OA, the Census ID for the Output Area
Persons, the residential population count for the OA
columns 3-16, the number of people White British, Irish, of an other White ethnicity, of a mixed ethnicity, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese, of an other Asian ethnicity, Black African, Black Caribbean, of an other Black ethnicity, Arab or of an other ethnicity.
columns 17-20, the ID codes for the higher-level geographies: LSOAs, MSOAs, LADs and RGNs
Source
Office for National Statistics; National Records of Scotland; Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (2016): 2011 Census aggregate data. UK Data Service (Edition: June 2016). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/census/aggregate-2011-1. This information is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3. The LSOA, MSOA, LAD and RGN codes are from http://bit.ly/2lGMdkE and are supplied under the Open Government Licence: Contains National Statistics data. Crown copyright and database right 2017.