National Assembly Economic Regions: Wales Administrative Boundaries, December 2015

Office for National Statistics provides digital vector boundaries for National Assembly Economic Regions in Wales as of December 2015. The dataset includes four boundary versions: full resolution (extent of the realm and clipped to coastline), generalised (20m), and super generalised (200m). It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Map economic indicators based on the defined National Assembly Economic Region boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis using the multiple boundary resolutions (full, 20m, 200m) for different scale requirements.
• Integrate regional boundaries with other datasets using the coastline-clipped or full-extent versions.
• Visualize administrative regions for Wales in web mapping services using the provided GeoJSON or KML formats.

Strengths

• Provides four distinct boundary versions for flexibility in analysis and visualization.
• Specific file sizes are listed for each boundary type, ranging from 60 KB to 3 MB.
• Contains authoritative intellectual property from Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• Includes multiple access methods via REST URLs for ArcGIS INSPIRE View and Feature Download services.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is specific to a single snapshot in time (December 2015).
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for some analyses.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official cartographic sources.

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:02.293631; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Wales