| Attribute name | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|
| reb_name_en | Welsh Economic Region | |
| ecrh_enw_cy | Rhanbarth Economaidd Cymru | |
| description_en | Area description | |
| disgrifiad_cy | Disgrifiad o'r ardal | |
| geom |
Welsh Economic Regions
Welsh Government
Background
The Economic Regions, as set out in Welsh Government’s ‘Prosperity for All: Economic Action Plan’, are made up of the following Welsh local authorities:
North Wales: Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, and Wrexham.
Mid and South West Wales: Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys, and Swansea.
South East Wales: Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Torfaen, and Vale of Glamorgan.
These boundaries illustrate these three areas.
The region of Mid and South West Wales was formerly split into the following two economic regions which were made up of the following local authorities:
Mid Wales: Ceredigion and Powys
South West Wales: Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Swansea.
This former region split is not represented in this dataset.
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Technical Information
These boundaries have been created by amalgamating Local Authority areas into the three economic regions as set out in the economic action plan. It is derived from the Ordnance Survey Boundaryline product, Oct 2022.
This layer contains the following information:
- Economic region name
- Area description
Geographical extent: Wales, UK.
Licensing: Open Government Licence (OGL).
These data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence, acknowledging both the source and copyright of the owners.
Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023
Date created: 02-2023
Format: Vector features
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- Type:
- Spatial data
- Category:
- Boundaries
- Publication date:
- 01 March 2023
- Licence:
- Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)
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Copyright:
- Keywords:
- Economic, Economic regions, economy, Rhanbarthau economaidd
- Point of contact:
- data@gov.wales
- Restrictions
- <p><strong>Licensing:</strong><br />Open Government Licence (OGL).</p> <p><strong>Attribution:</strong><br />Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023.<br /> </p>
- Purpose
<p>To illustrate geographically the Welsh economic regions as set out in the Prosperity for All: Economic Action Plan. </p>
- Language
- English
- Temporal Extent
- Dec. 13, 2017, midnight - Oct. 31, 2022, midnight
- Data Quality
- <p><strong>Geographical extent: </strong>Wales, UK</p> <p><strong>Lineage:</strong> These boundaries have been created by amalgamating Local Authority areas into the three economic regions as set out in the Prosperity for All: Economic Action Plan. These are derived from the Ordnance Survey Boundaryline product, Oct 2022.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> Ordnance Survey</p> <p><strong>Date created:</strong> 02-2023</p> <p><strong>OS product:</strong> BoundaryLine, October 2022</p>
- Spatial Representation Type
- Vector data is used to represent geographic data