Local authority RUC distance
Version: 1.2.0. This is the latest version. See all versions.
Description
The similarity between authorities is calculated by the proportion of the population living in urban, rural, and highly rural neighbourhoods. The population density is also used to help distinguish between authorities in entirely urban areas.
This UK-wide comparison is based on a Composite Rural Urban Classification system.
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Table: Local Authority RUC Similarity
Description:
Dataset of distance calculations based on RUC data.
This distance is based on:
- Proportion of population in urban area
- Proportion of population in rural area
- Proportion of population in highly rural area
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 rural-urban profile labels
Description:
A short category based on rural-urban 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 rural-urban profile of authority. | No | Rural, Sparse and rural, Urban, Urban with rural areas |
Table: Local authority rural-urban labels
Description:
Map of short labels to longer descriptions for rural-urban categories.
Data description
| Column name | Data type | Description | Unique | Required values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| label | string | Short label for rural-urban profile. | Yes | Rural, Sparse and rural, Urban, Urban with rural areas |
| desc | string | Longer description of rural-urban profile. | Yes | Local authority mostly made up of urban neighbourhoods, but with a significant number of rural neighbourhoods, Local authority predominately made up of large and low-density rural neighbourhoods, Local authority predominately made up of rural neighbourhoods, Local authority predominately made up of urban neighbourhoods |
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 compoiste rural urban classifcation data emissions data ' to 'The similarity between authorities is calculated by the proportion of the population living in urban, rural, and highly rural neighbourhoods. The population density is also used to help distinguish between authorities in entirely urban areas. This UK-wide comparison is based on a [Composite Rural Urban Classification](https://mysociety.github.io/uk_ruc/) system. '
0.1.0
Initial load of data