National Assembly Economic Regions in Wales, Super Generalised Boundaries (2015)

Wales is covered by digital vector boundaries for National Assembly Economic Regions as of December 2015. The dataset contains four boundary versions, including full resolution and generalised (20m and 200m) files clipped to the coastline. It is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains Ordnance Survey and ONS intellectual property rights.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps of economic indicators based on the defined regional boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis of regional data using the provided coastline-clipped vector files.
• Integrate boundary data into GIS projects for Wales, leveraging the multiple generalisation levels for different scales.

Strengths

• Provides four distinct boundary versions, including super generalised (200m) files at 60 KB for lightweight use.
• Contains specific file size information for each boundary variant, such as the 3 MB full-resolution clipped file.
• Includes direct REST service URLs for programmatic access and download via ArcGIS.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, focusing solely on Wales.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:04.458285; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Wales