Rural Urban Classification (2011) of Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in England

<span style='font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 18.4px; background: white;'>This is the 2011 rural-urban classification (RUC) of Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in accordance with the scale of their 'rural' and 'rural-related' population components, and their context - whether they lie within conurbations. 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 the classification 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 RUCLAD classification was produced by the University of Sheffield and was</span><span style='font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 18.4px;'> 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.</span><div><span style='font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px;'><font size='3'><br /></font></span></div><div><span style='font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px;'><span style='font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><font color='#000000' size='3'>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.</font></span><br /></span></div>本数据集为2011年英国威斯敏斯特议会选区城乡分类（Rural-Urban Classification, RUC），其划分依据为选区的“乡村”与“乡村相关”人口构成规模，以及区位属性——是否坐落于都会群（conurbations）范围内。该分类体系仅面向英格兰地区，作为另一项相关分类体系的补充，后者用于对英格兰与威尔士的小型地理单元（输出区(Output Areas, OAs)、超级输出区(Super Output Areas, SOAs)及沃德选区(wards)）开展分类工作。需明确的是，本分类体系无论新版还是旧版，在很大程度上均依托于对应的低层级分类体系。该低层级小型地理单元分类最初为一组政府机构联盟开发，适配2001年人口普查数据，并在2011年人口普查后，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 for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Defra）、国家统计局（Office for National Statistics, ONS）以及威尔士政府（Welsh Government, WG）在内的同类联盟完成修订。RUCLAD城乡分类体系由谢菲尔德大学编制，并由跨政府工作组赞助开发，该工作组涵盖环境、食品与农村事务部、社区与地方政府部以及国家统计局。2017年6月21日：本次更新：此前发现原始数据集存在部分字段缺失的问题，推测系因将CSV文件上传至ArcGIS Online时发生文件损坏。现已通过以ZIP压缩包格式上传文件的方式完成修复。