Themes & Constructs

Themes are a very lightweight grouping of "constructs" that represent a variable (or a group of variables) at a conceptual level. Alongside each construct is a "proxy"; this is just a short description of all variables that fit within this construct. The structure of the themes.json file is very simple:

{
  "<theme name>": {
    "<construct 1>": "<proxy for concept 1>",
    "<construct 2>": "<proxy for concept 2>",
  }
}

and with some real example values:

{
  "Social": {
    "Age": "Age group estimates and percentages of population",
    "Race & Ethnicity": "Percentages of population defined by categories of race and ethnicity",
  }
}

Each variable is matched to one construct via its construct property.