Rural Urban Classification (2011) of Output Areas in EW

<span style='font-family: 'Avenir Next W01', 'Avenir Next W00', 'Avenir Next', Avenir, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.35px;'>This file provides a rural-urban view of 2011 Output Areas (OA) in England and Wales. The 2011 rural-urban classification (RUC) of OAs was released in August 2013. The product was sponsored by a cross-Government working group comprising Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Department for Communities and Local Government, Office for National Statistics and the Welsh Government. OAs are treated as ‘urban’ if they were allocated to a 2011 built-up area with a population of 10,000 or more. The urban domain is then further sub-divided into three broad morphological types based on the predominant settlement component. As with the previous version of the classification, the remaining ‘rural’ OAs are grouped into three broad morphological types based on the predominant settlement component. The classification also categorises OAs based on context – i.e. whether the wider surrounding area of a given OA is sparsely populated or less sparsely populated.</span>本文件提供英格兰与威尔士地区2011年输出区（Output Areas, OA）的城乡划分概览。2011年输出区城乡分类（Rural-Urban Classification, RUC）于2013年8月正式发布。该数据集由跨政府工作组资助研发，工作组由环境、食品与农村事务部、社区与地方政府部、英国国家统计局及威尔士政府共同组成。若某输出区被划入人口规模达10000及以上的2011年建成区，则将其归类为“城镇”输出区。城镇域将根据主导聚落类型进一步细分为三大广义形态类别。与此前版本的分类规则一致，剩余的“乡村”输出区同样依据主导聚落类型划分为三大广义形态类别。本次分类还会基于区位背景对输出区进行划分——即依据给定输出区的周边大范围区域人口是稀疏还是相对稠密。