Scotland's Census 2011

Summary

Abstract

Scotland’s 2011 Census is the official count of every person and household in the country, on 27th March 2011.

• Contact point
  dataaccess@nrscotland.gov.uk
• Digital object identifier (DOI)
  Not available

Keywords

Publisher

• Identifier
  Not available
• Name
  National Records of Scotland
• Logo

  Not available

• Description
  https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/
• Contact point
  dataaccess@nrscotland.gov.uk

Documentation

Description

• Associated media

  • Available resource files can be downloaded below.

    https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/census-results/specialist-products/microdata/
• Is part of
  • Scotland's Census

Coverage

Spatial

• Spatial coverage

  Scotland

• Geographic levels
  council area, country, dz11, national parks, oa11, ward, WPC, wz11

Temporal

• Start date
  27/03/2011
• End date
  27/03/2011
• Frequency
  Static
• Distribution release date
  Not available

Provenance

• Purpose
  Scotland’s 2011 census is the official count of every person and household in the country. The answers people give to census questions help build up a picture of the population. Government and other service providers rely on census data to make important decisions. Census records are used for research and statistical purposes.
• Source
  Other
• Collection situation
  Not available

Access and governance

• Conditions of access
  Access through application to the Statistics Public Benefit and Privacy Panel

Requesting access to this data

This is a secure dataset that can only be accessed by researchers from approved organisations.

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Usage

• Conditions of use
  For research and statistical purposes only, No information that identifies individual people can be published
• Resource creator
  National Records of Scotland
• Is referenced by
  Not available

Access

• Access rights
  https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-government-statistics-request-our-data/
• Access service
  National Safe Haven
• Jurisdiction
  GB-SCT
• Data controller
  National Records of Scotland
• Data processor
  Public Health Scotland

Format and standards

• Language
  English
• Format
  Csv, excel

Enrichment and linkage

• Related datasets
  • Scotland's Census 2001
  • Scottish Longitudinal Study
• Linkage opportunity
  Can be linked to other datasets through linkage key created by NRS Indexing (Trusted Third Party). Can be used to create cohorts for linkage studies.
• Tools
  • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is available for this dataset.