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LS variable metadata
| NAGGDTWP21 |
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| Table | NM21 2021 Census - non-LS members |
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| Short description | Aggregation of Distance travelled to work. 2021. |
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| Source | 2021 Census. |
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| Code notes | 1-10, -6 Missing, -9 No code required required (People not in employment, People who do not travel to work and Students not at their term-time address). |
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Variable coding
| Value | Label |
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| 1 | Less than 2km |
| 2 | 2km to less than 5km |
| 3 | 5km to less than 10km |
| 4 | 10km to 20km |
| 5 | 20km to 30km |
| 6 | 30km to 40km |
| 7 | 40km to 60km |
| 8 | 60km or over |
| 9 | Work mainly at or from home |
| 10 | Work mainly at an offshore installation, in no fixed place, or outside the UK |
Additional information
| Value | Label |
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| id | 5541 |
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| fullname | (NM21)NAGGDTWP21 |
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| description | The distance, in kilometres, between a person's residential postcode and their workplace postcode measured in a straight line. |
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| codedas | |
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| source | 2021 Census. |
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| derived | Y |
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| codelist | Y |
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| notes | The distance, in kilometres, between a person's residential postcode and their workplace postcode measured in a straight line. A distance travelled of 0.1km indicates that the workplace postcode is the same as the residential postcode.
Distances over 1200km are treated as invalid, and an imputed or estimated value is added.
?Work mainly at or from home? is made up of those that ticked either the 'Mainly work at or from home' box for the address of workplace question, or the ?Work mainly at or from home? box for the method of travel to work question.
?Other? includes no fixed place of work, working on an offshore installation and working outside of the UK.
There is an additional 2 codes in the Census 2021 form - Working form home and Working in Off Shore Installation. |
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| restricted | N |
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| format | Numeric |
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| length | 2 |
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| keyword | Workplace address, Geography |
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| classification | |
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| comvarind | |
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| comvartime | |
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