Former NUTS III Areas: Historical Administrative Boundaries for Northern Ireland
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Description
Five former NUTS III statistical areas in Northern Ireland, which were aggregates of 26 Local Government Districts until 2018. The dataset, provided by the Government Digital Service, includes the Belfast, Outer Belfast, East, North, and West and South areas. It is available in geospatial formats like GeoJSON and ESRI Shapefile.
Use Cases
Analyzing historical regional statistics based on the pre-2018 NUTS III aggregation scheme.
Mapping administrative boundary changes in Northern Ireland based on the described district groupings.
Conducting longitudinal studies on governance or public service provision using the former district aggregations.
Strengths
Provides a clear historical mapping of 5 NUTS III areas to 26 specific Local Government Districts.
Data is provided in standard geospatial formats (GeoJSON, ESRI Shapefile) for interoperability.
Limitations
Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
Source
Government Digital Service
Collection Method
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Time Range
Covers the period prior to 1 January 2018.
Freshness
null
Geography
Northern Ireland
Licensed under the UK Open Government Licence (http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/open-government-licence).