Rural Urban Classification (2011) of Local Authority Districts in EN

This is 2011 rural-urban classification (RUC) of Local Authority Districts. This part of the Rural Urban Classification is available only for England and complements another part of the classification concerned to classify small areas (Output Areas (OAs); Super Output Areas (SOAs) and wards) in both England and Wales. It is important to appreciate that to a substantial degree RUC of Local Authority Districts in both its new and earlier forms rests on this corresponding lower level classification. This lower level small-area classification was originally developed for a consortium of government agencies for use with the 2001 Census and revised following the 2011 Census for a similar consortium which included the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Welsh Government (WG). The RUC of Local Authority Districts was produced by the University of Sheffield and was sponsored by a cross-Government working group comprising Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Department of the Communities and Local Government and Office for National Statistics. 21/06/2017: UPDATED - it was noticed that not all the fields were present on the original - possibly due to a corruption when uploading the CSV file to ArcGIS Online. This has been rectified by uploading the files in ZIP file format. 24/09/2018: UPDATED - with the new local authority name of Folkestone and Hythe本数据集为2011年版地方自治辖区城乡分类（Rural Urban Classification, RUC）。该版城乡分类仅适用于英格兰地区，可补充适配英格兰与威尔士两地的小区域分类工作，该分类体系涵盖输出区（Output Areas, OAs）、超级输出区（Super Output Areas, SOAs）及选区（wards）。需明确的是，无论新版还是旧版的地方自治辖区城乡分类，在很大程度上均依托于上述对应层级的小区域分类体系。该小区域分类体系最初由一组政府联合机构开发，用于2001年英国人口普查；后在2011年人口普查完成后，由包含社区与地方政府部（Department of Communities and Local Government, DCLG）、环境、食品与农村事务部（Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Defra）、国家统计局（Office for National Statistics, ONS）及威尔士政府（Welsh Government, WG）在内的同类跨政府联合机构完成修订。本地方自治辖区城乡分类数据集由谢菲尔德大学编制，并由环境、食品与农村事务部、社区与地方政府部及国家统计局组成的跨政府工作组赞助支持。2017年6月21日：更新——经核查发现原始数据集部分字段缺失，推测原因为将CSV文件上传至ArcGIS Online时发生文件损坏。现已通过ZIP压缩包格式上传文件的方式完成修复。2018年9月24日：更新——补充新增地方自治辖区名称“福克斯通-希思（Folkestone and Hythe）”