Alternate title

2001 ST Wards

Date ( Creation )

2003-02-13

Date ( Publication )

2003-02-13

Identifier

www.nrscotland.gov.uk / STWards2001

Maintenance and update frequency

asNeeded As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

• Statistical units

Use limitation

No Conditions Apply

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

License

Denominator

10000

Metadata language

eng English

Topic category

• Boundaries

Supplemental Information

Reference system identifier

EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4

Distribution format

• Shapefile (ArcGIS 10 )

• WMS (1.3.0 )

OnLine resource

National Records of Scotland website  

Geography – 2001 Census Boundaries

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Statement

A 2001 Standard (ST) ward is one of 2 special wards created for 2001 Census Output. These are both created by aggregating output areas and are only best-fit for electoral wards.

Where 2001 Census Area Statistic (CAS) wards fall below the ST thresholds (400 households and 1,000 persons) they are merged with neighbouring CAS wards to exceed the threshold. It is also necessary to make a few adjustments to ST wards so as to remove and ‘slivers’ below ST threshold created by differencing ST wards and ST sectors. The processes result in 1,176 ST wards.

ST wards that are mergers of CAS wards are labelled ‘South Ronaldsay; Holm and Burray’ with a semi-colon to indicate the merger. For slivers, ST wards containing part, or sliver, of a CAS ward are labelled ending in part ‘Innerleithen and Walkerburn; Peebles and District South (part)’

ST wards cover Scotland and extend to the Mean High Water Mark (MHW).

Metadata

File identifier

1106ed62-501b-4298-8718-d76e63e46ab1   XML

Metadata language

eng English

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2018-02-23

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0