This archive contains the classification of travel-to-work flows between MSOA in England and Wales based on the 2011 Census. Only flows above 5 were included in the classification. The classification is provided in shapefile format using as projection EPSG:27700 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid. The QGIS project file opens this shapefile, and displays the flows using 90% transparency. The classification is also provided as a csv file allowing the import into other tools for analysing and displaying flow data.

Both the Shapefile and the csv-file include the following variables:

codres - MSOA code of the residential location or flow origin for travelling out to work.
codresx - the longitude of the population-weighted MSOA 2011 centroid
codresy - the latitude of the population-weighted MSOA 2011 centroid
codwp - MSOA code of the workplace location of flow destination for travelling out to work.
codwpx - the longitutde of the population-weighted MSOA 2011 centroid
codwpy - the latitude of the population-weighted MSOA 2011 centroid
code - a unique combination of residential and workplace MSOA code
perstot - number of people travelling to work between residential and workplace MSOA
supergroup - One of the nine supergroups of the classification
cdsg - cluster distance main group
group - One of the fourty groups of the classification
cdg - cluster distance sub-group
dist_km - distance between population-weighted centroids of MSOA in km
rucres - Rural-urban classification 2011 code residential location
rucwp - Rural-urban classification 2011 code workplace location



These are the codes for the rural-urban classification:
Urban: Major Conurbation (A1)
Urban: Minor Conurbation (B1)
Urban: City and Town 	 (C1) 
Urban: City and Town in a Sparse Setting (C2) 
Rural: Town and Fringe (D1)
Rural: Town and Fringe in a Sparse Setting (D2)
Rural: Village (E1)
Rural: Village in a Sparse Setting (E2) 
Rural: Hamlets and Isolated Dwellings (F1)
Rural: Hamlets and Isolated Dwellings in a Sparse Setting (F2)

More details about the rural-urban classification can be found at this weblink:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/geographicalproducts/ruralurbanclassifications/2011ruralurbanclassification

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