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Demography

Summary

Abstract

Patient demographic data from the national CHI dataset.

Keywords

Scotland Demography Tayside Fife

Publisher

  • Name
    Health Informatics Centre - University of Dundee
  • Logo

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  • Description
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  • Contact point
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Documentation

Description

Demographic data comes from the national CHI dataset, however only Tayside and Fife health boards can be extracted for HIC projects. Therefore the demography dataset contains a single record for each cohort, this record will be details for the most recent time the person was in either Tayside or Fife. This is the current or most recent record for each person, aiming for a single record per person.
  • Associated media
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  • Is part of
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Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/10/1994
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Monthly
  • Distribution release date
    31/01/2022

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Not available
  • Source
    Not available
  • Collection situation
    Other

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    Geographical restrictions

Requesting access to this data

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Disclosure control
  • Resource creator
    National Records Scotland
  • Is referenced by
    Not available

Access

  • Access rights
  • Access service
    "HIC has implemented a remote-access Trusted Research Environment to protect data confidentiality, satisfy public concerns about data loss and reassure Data Controllers about HIC’s secure management and processing of their data. Data is not released externally to data users for analysis on their own computers but placed on a server at HIC, within a restricted, secure IT environment, where the data user is given secure remote access to carry out their analysis. Full details are available via the following link: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/hic/safe-haven"
  • Jurisdiction
    GB-SCT
  • Data controller
    National Records Scotland
  • Data processor
    University of Dundee, Health Informatics Centre

Format and standards

  • Language
    English, Afrikaans
  • Format
    Database

Enrichment and linkage

  • Related datasets
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  • Linkage opportunity
    Not available
  • Tools
    • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data Dictionary

PROCHI

Anonymised patient identifier

SEX

This field represents patient Gender. M (Male) or F (Female). It can be derived from ...

ANON_DATE_OF_BIRTH

Anonymised date of birth to within three months of original data (e.g., 22/03/2008 would...

CALCULATED_AGE

This field represents the patients current calculated age based on their date of birth. ...

DATE_IN

This field represents the date when a person came into the health board region and regis...

DATE_OUT

This field represents the date when a person left his or her health board (to register w...

HB_EXTRACT

This field represents the alpha and/or numeric Health Board code in which the patient CH...

HBSIMD5

This field represents the Health Board Quintile (SIMD - scottish index of multiple depri...

HBSIMD10

This field represents the Health Board Decile (SIMD - scottish index of multiple depriva...

SCSIMD5

This field represents the Scotland Quintile (SIMD - scottish index of multiple deprivati...

Variable description

Data type
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