GSS code (United Kingdom)
ID ukgsscode
DatatypeNot PIIcategorical
UK GSS (Government Statistical Service) code, the nine-character geographic code used by the Office for National Statistics to identify administrative and statistical geographies across the United Kingdom.
- Categories
- Geographic identifiers
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Wikidata
- P836
- Quality
- 90/100 · missing: negative example, translation
- Metacrafter rules
- 1 rule (1 by field name, 0 by value)
ukgsscodefieldfield, gb/gb_geo.yaml
- Supported by tools
- metacrafter
Regular expression
^[EKLMNSW]\d{8}$
Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| E09000025 | London Borough of Newham |
| E08000001 | Bolton |
| W92000004 | Wales |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONS_coding_system
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P836
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ukgsscode - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/GB/geo/ukgsscode.yamlon GitHub