Local authority physical distance
Version: 1.2.0. This is the latest version. See all versions.
Description
This comparison set shows councils which are geographically close to the selected council.
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Table: Local Authority Location Similarity
Description:
Dataset of distance calculations based on Location similarity
This is based on the x,y distance between centroids.
Data description
| Column name | Data type | Description | Unique | Required values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| local-authority-code_A | string | A three/four letter code for the local authority | No | |
| local-authority-code_B | string | A three/four letter code for the local authority | No | |
| distance | number | The distance between the two local authorities (not meaningful except for comparisons) | No | |
| match | number | A score between 0 and 100 indicting how similar a council is (based on all known distances for a council) | No | |
| position | number | The rank of how much local authority B is similar to local authority A (1 is most similar). | No |
Table: Local authority location profile labels
Description:
A short category based on location profile for each local authority
Data description
| Column name | Data type | Description | Unique | Required values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| local-authority-code | string | 3/4 letter local authority code. | Yes | |
| label | string | Label to describe location profile of authority. | No | East Midlands, East of England, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber |
Table: Local authority location labels
Description:
Map of short labels to longer descriptions for location categories (This is just region).
Data description
| Column name | Data type | Description | Unique | Required values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| label | string | Short label for location profile. | Yes | East Midlands, East of England, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber |
| desc | string | Longer description of location profile. | Yes | Local authorities in East Midlands, Local authorities in East of England, Local authorities in London, Local authorities in North East, Local authorities in North West, Local authorities in Northern Ireland, Local authorities in Scotland, Local authorities in South East, Local authorities in South West, Local authorities in Wales, Local authorities in West Midlands, Local authorities in Yorkshire and The Humber |
Change log
1.2.0
Change in data for resource(s): distance_map,la_labels
1.1.0
release 2023 data
1.1.0-futurecouncils
1.0.0
lock data schema
0.1.1
description changed from 'Rankings, match-scores and labels for local authorities based on physical data ' to 'This comparison set shows councils which are geographically close to the selected council.'
0.1.0
Initial load of data