Identification

Title

UK gridded population based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2007

Abstract

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset contains gridded population with a spatial resolution of 1 km x 1 km for the UK based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2007 input data. Data on population distribution for the United Kingdom is available from statistical offices in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland and provided to the public e.g. via the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Population data is typically provided in tabular form or, based on a range of different geographical units, in file types for geographical information systems (GIS), for instance as ESRI Shapefiles. The geographical units reflect administrative boundaries at different levels of detail, from Devolved Administration to Output Areas (OA), wards or intermediate geographies . While the presentation of data on the level of these geographical units is useful for statistical purposes, accounting for spatial variability for instance of environmental determinants of public health requires a more spatially homogeneous population distribution. For this purpose, the dataset presented here combines 2011 UK Census population data on Output Area level with Land Cover Map 2007 land-use classes 'urban' and 'suburban' to create a consistent and comprehensive gridded population data product at 1 km x 1 km spatial resolution. The mapping product is based on British National Grid (OSGB36 datum). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/61f10c74-8c2c-4637-a274-5fa9b2e5ce44

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/61f10c74-8c2c-4637-a274-5fa9b2e5ce44

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

society

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Population Distribution - Demography

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Pollution and Environmental Risk

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.648

East bounding longitude

1.768

North bounding latitude

60.861

South bounding latitude

49.864

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2011-01-01

End position

2011-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-02-15

date type

creation

effective date

2016-02-05

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Census data from the Office of National Statistics have been downloaded as CSV files. Land Cover Map 2007 vector data has been obtained from CEH. Output Area geography data (Extent of the Realm), were obtained for England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. The processing steps are detailed in the Supporting Documentation. To ensure consistency of the final product, total population numbers were compared, at each processing step, with the official 2011 Census totals. In particular due to the clipping process, which merges data on different geographies, areas where population data are provided on administrative boundaries and areas which contain urban, suburban and urban industrial land use parcels, some inconsistencies are inevitable. In addition, the Land Cover Map has been generated in 2007 (with satellite data compiled prior to the release, whereas Census data was obtained in 2011. In the period in between, additional residential areas will have emerged, which are not currently included in the land use data provided by LCM 2007. For the dataset, the discrepancy between total Census 2011 population figures and the resulting 1 km x 1 km gridded total accumulates to 0.47%. This value is applied as a scaling factor to the gridded dataset to generate a data product consistent with the Census total population for 2011.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Reis, S., Steinle, S., Carnell, E., Leaver, D., Vieno, M., Beck, R., Dragosits, U. (2016). UK gridded population based on Census 2011 and Land Cover Map 2007. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/61f10c74-8c2c-4637-a274-5fa9b2e5ce44

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-03-13T14:22:55

Metadata language

eng