National Assembly Economic Regions in Wales: Names and Codes for 2017

Wales is covered by this list of National Assembly Economic Region names and codes as of 31 December 2017. The Office for National Statistics produced the data, which includes fields for region codes and names. The dataset was last updated on the platform in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Map economic data to Welsh regions based on the standardized NAER17CD codes.
• Join other datasets using the region names (NAER17NM) as a key for Welsh-specific analysis.
• Create visualizations of Welsh administrative boundaries using the provided geospatial file formats.

Strengths

• Includes a specific snapshot date (31 December 2017) for the region definitions.
• Provides data in multiple formats (GEOJSON, ESRI REST, CSV) for different analytical tools.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, which permits open use.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:25.621562; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2017

Freshness

Snapshot from 2017; platform metadata updated in 2026.

Geography

Wales