Institution profile record 2012/13 - Easting
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Type | field |
Short name | EASTING |
Description |
This field should contain the Easting reference for the campus. |
Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
Coverage | All institutions. |
Notes |
The position of any point in Great Britain can be described by its National Grid reference. Within this framework a National Grid reference is used to state the position of any point in Britain, to any level of precision that is required. Two numbers are stated: an Easting (along the horizontal axis) and a Northing (along the vertical axis). When working with coordinates in mathematical formulae, full Easting and Northing coordinates are used. These are given in metres with respect to a false origin. Eastings can be up to 700000 and northings up to 1300000. Further information can be found at http://www.gps.gov.uk/natgrid/introduction.asp. Easting and Northing references are required for each campus. For most postcodes these fields will be auto-filled using the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory (ONSPD) lookup that is also used to validate the full postcode. Where the postcode is a PO Box No. institutions are required to supply the Easting and Northing (x and y co-ordinates) for the location of the campus. Currently only a small number of HEIs use PO Box Nos., and so these institutions will need to use an OS map or http://www.multimap.co.uk to provide the Easting and Northing. For all other postcodes the Easting and Northing will be automatically populated. The location will be cross-checked with the location derived from the postcode. If, when compared to the previous year, a change in the postcode or, for a PO Box No., the Easting and Northing, has moved the location of the campus by more than 500 metres, the data should be amended or the change explained. |
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Reason required |
To determine provision by location and campus, to produce regional statistics and to analyse the geographical choices of students. |
Part of | |
Field length | 6 |
Minimum occurrences | 0 |
Maximum occurrences | 1 |
Schema components |
Element: EASTING
Data type: EASTINGType |
Owner | Office for National Statistics |
Version | 1.0 |
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