Register of Geographic Codes: Definitive UK Statistical Geographies (September 2017)
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Description
The Register of Geographic Codes is the definitive list of UK statistical geographies, maintained by the Office for National Statistics on behalf of the Government Statistical Service. It contains the relationship between active and archived code ranges and was updated in September 2017 with changes to parishes, communities, wards, and economic partnership areas. The dataset should be used in conjunction with the separately available Code History Database.
Use Cases
Standardizing UK location identifiers for data linkage based on the definitive list of statistical geographies.
Mapping administrative boundary changes over time based on the relationship between active and archived code ranges.
Updating geographic information systems with the September 2017 updates to parishes, communities, and wards.
Analyzing economic development regions using the updated Local Enterprise Partnership codes.
Strengths
Definitive source for UK statistical geographies, maintained by the Office for National Statistics.
Includes updates for September 2017 covering multiple geography types like parishes (E04) and wards (E05).
Maintains relationships between active and archived code ranges, supporting historical analysis.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Last updated 2025-08-11 07:50:25; freshness should be verified as the underlying data is from 2017.
Provenance
Source
Government Digital Service, via the eu_open_data platform.
Collection Method
Maintained and coordinated by the Office for National Statistics.
Time Range
Snapshot from September 2017.
Freshness
Metadata last updated 2025-08-11; data snapshot is from September 2017.
Geography
United Kingdom.
Data is provided in HTML format; users may need to parse it for structured use. Must be used with the separate Code History Database for full context.