National Assembly Economic Regions in Wales, December 2015 Boundaries

Office for National Statistics provides digital vector boundaries for National Assembly Economic Regions in Wales as of December 2015. The dataset includes four boundary variants at different resolutions and file sizes, from 60 KB to 3 MB. It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Map economic indicators across Welsh regions based on the provided administrative boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis of regional data using the generalised (20m) or super generalised (200m) coastline-clipped boundaries.
• Create simplified visualizations for reports using the super generalised (200m) boundary files.

Strengths

• Provides four specific boundary variants with stated file sizes (e.g., 60 KB for super generalised).
• Contains boundaries as of a specific date (December 2015).
• Offers multiple download formats (GEOJSON, CSV, KML, ZIP) and access via ArcGIS REST services.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to uk_data, as it is a snapshot from 2015.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:28.895789; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Wales