With the exception of 2001, these data have been created for
Vision of Britain by re-districting statistics originally
reported for other units. We have also had to deal with
variations in the categories and classifications used in
statistical reporting over the years. - 1851: The data come from
the 1851 Census of Education, which was a separate census of
schools carried out at the same time as the Census of
Population. We hold full transcriptions of the report for
England and Wales (BPP 1852-53 XC [C. 1692], 1-.) and the report
for Scotland (BPP 1854 LIX, 247-.), but they were mainly
concerned with how schools were funded, not with the pupils. The
original data used in redistricting calculations were for
Registration Districts in England and Wales, and simply for
counties in Scotland, as no separate urban statistics were
published even for Edinburgh and Glasgow. 'Voluntary schooling'
covers the 'total number of scholars' belonging to all Day
Schools, and we separately include total numbers in Sunday
Schools.