Identification info

Metadata Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Dataset Reference Date (Publication)

2016-09-14

Identifier

5f079440-23ba-4ec4-9229-9b243406657a_resource

Status

Completed

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Statistical units

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

• statistical data

• census survey

IPSV Subjects List

• Boundaries

• Censuses

Limitations on Public Access

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations to public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Open Government Licence

Other constraints

The following statements must be used when reproducing or using this material: Copyright National Records of Scotland, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year).

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

10000

Topic category

• Boundaries

Code

S92000003

Additional information

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Code

EPSG:4258

Code

EPSG:27700

Distribution Information

 

Data quality info

Quality Scope

Dataset

Statement

Workplace Zone (WZ) centroids are point features that represent the ‘master postcodes’ for WZs. The centroid, or ‘master postcode’ was selected using an algorithm which calculates the postcode centroid within a WZ which has grid references closest to the worker-weighted centre of the DZ. These centroids / ‘master postcodes’ can be used to link WZs to other (higher level) geographies and produce a 'best-fit' match. They have been created by the National Records of Scotland (NRS), based on the WZ boundaries which were produced on behalf of NRS by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The general method for calculating the centroids / ‘master postcodes’ is as follows. The mean easting and northing coordinate pair for all postcodes within the WZ is calculated, weighted by the number of workers per postcode, giving a notional centroid of the WZ. The distance from each of the postcode centroids within the WZ to the notional (or mean) centroid is calculated using Pythagoras' Theorem. The postcode coordinate pair with the shortest distance to the mean was then chosen as the ‘master postcode’ to represent the centroid of the DZ.

WZs were a new output geography for Census 2011, initially produced using workplace data from the 2011 Census for England and Wales rather than the UK as a whole. They are designed to supplement the Output Area (OA) and Super Output Area (LSOA and MSOA) / Data Zone (DZ) geographies that were introduced with the 2001 Census, and have been constructed from OAs, or sub-divisions of these called postcode-level building-blocks. While OAs are designed to contain consistent numbers of persons based on where they live, WZs are designed to contain consistent numbers of workers, based on where people work. Following publication of WZs for England and Wales, coverage was subsequently extended to include Scotland and Northern Ireland using 2011 Census data to create a UK set of WZs produced by the ONS on behalf of NRS and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). WZs are designed to be a more suitable output geography for publishing workplace statistics.

 

Metadata

File identifier

5f079440-23ba-4ec4-9229-9b243406657a XML

Metadata Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Resource type

Dataset

Metadata Date

2025-02-11T13:39:58.266Z

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3