National Assembly for Wales Constituency Boundaries as of December 2017

Wales constituency boundaries for the National Assembly, current as of 31 December 2017. The digital vector boundaries are super generalised (200m) and clipped to the coastline. The dataset contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing spatial relationships between Welsh constituencies and geographic features based on the coastline-clipped data.
• Integrating administrative boundaries for regional planning or demographic analysis based on the 2017 constituency definitions.

Strengths

• Boundaries are current to a specific date (31 December 2017).
• Data is generalised to a specific scale (200m).
• Contains intellectual property rights from two authoritative sources (Ordnance Survey and ONS).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2022 -10-26 14:24:27.660000; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official administrative records.

Time Range

As of 31 December 2017.

Freshness

Last updated 2022-10-26 14:24:27.660000.

Geography

Wales