Dimension

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In a database, dimensions provide structured, categorical information about the data, such as time, geography, or product categories.

In a database, dimensions provide structured, categorical information about numeric measures (observations). The primary functions of dimensions are typically to provide filtering, grouping and labelling.

In practice

Common dimensions in statistics and open data are for example age groups, gender and date.

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