Rural Urban Classification (2001) of LSOAs in EW

This file provides a rural-urban view of 2001 Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) in England and Wales. The ZIP file contains the Rural Urban Classification in XLSX and CSV format and includes a user guide. The files were originally from the NeSS website. Click on the Download button to download the ZIP file. The classification of rural and urban areas is the outcome of a project co-sponsored by: Office for National Statistics (ONS); Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra); Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now Communities and Local Government); Countryside Agency (CA); and National Assembly for Wales (NAW). The classification was developed in 2004 by a consortium co-ordinated by Prof. John Shepherd from Birkbeck College. The technical work was lead by Peter Bibby of University of Sheffield and the project also involved the University of Glamorgan and Geowise. The rural and urban classification of Output Areas, Super Output Areas (this dataset) and Wards has been provided to enable datasets to be analysed according to the classification. This provides a powerful tool for the development and monitoring of rural and urban policies. Please Note: Super Output Areas do not have all the same codes as the OA level Dataset. For SOAs and Wards the classifications for ‘Villages, Hamlets and Isolated Dwellings’ have been combined. Similar procedures to those used to classify Output Areas apply to the classification for the 34,378 Lower Layer Super Output Areas in the dataset. However the morphological classification differs in the number of categories as very few LSOAs can be classified as predominantly dispersed settlements. LSOAs are categorised into just three domains: urban 10k, town and fringe and villages, hamlets and isolated dwellings, using the key below: 2005 Rural and Urban morphology indicator 1 - denotes predominantly urban >10k 2 - denotes predominantly town and fringe 3 - denotes other rural (including village, hamlet and isolated dwellings) 2005 Rural and Urban context indicator 0 - denotes less sparsely populated areas 1 - denotes sparsely populated areas本文件呈现了英格兰与威尔士地区2001年版下层超级输出区（Lower Layer Super Output Areas, LSOA）的城乡分类视图。该压缩包内含XLSX与CSV格式的城乡分类文件，同时附带用户指南。本批文件最初源自NeSS网站，点击下载按钮即可获取该压缩包。 本次城乡分类成果源自一项联合赞助项目，赞助方包括：英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics, ONS）、环境、食品与农村事务部（Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Defra）、副首相办公室（现更名为社区与地方政府部）、乡村事务署（Countryside Agency, CA）以及威尔士国民议会（National Assembly for Wales, NAW）。 该分类体系于2004年由伯克贝克学院约翰·谢泼德教授牵头协调的联盟团队开发完成，技术工作由谢菲尔德大学的彼得·比比主导，项目合作方还包括格拉摩根大学与Geowise。 输出区（Output Areas, OA）、超级输出区（Super Output Areas, SOA，即本数据集）以及选区的城乡分类文件已公开，以便研究人员基于该分类体系开展数据集分析工作，为城乡政策的制定与监测提供有力支撑工具。 请注意：超级输出区的编码与输出区（OA）层级数据集的编码并非完全一致。针对超级输出区与选区，原分类中的“乡村、小村落与孤立住宅”类别已进行合并。 本数据集涵盖的34378个下层超级输出区的分类流程与输出区分类流程基本一致，但形态学分类的类别数量存在差异——由于仅有极少部分LSOA可被归类为以分散定居点为主的区域，因此LSOA仅被划分为三大类别：人口超1万的城区、城镇与边缘区，以及乡村、小村落与孤立住宅区域，分类依据如下： 2005年城乡形态学分类指标： 1：代表以人口超1万的城区为主体的区域 2：代表以城镇及边缘区域为主体的区域 3：代表其他乡村区域（含乡村、小村落与孤立住宅） 2005年城乡环境分类指标： 0：代表低人口稀疏度区域 1：代表高人口稀疏度区域