Statistics

  • Our plans to update the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation

    20th November 2024 by

    By The SIMD team The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) is a tool for identifying the places in Scotland where people are experiencing disadvantage across different aspects of their lives. It is the Scottish Government’s standard approach to identifying areas of multiple deprivation in Scotland, and is widely used to identify opportunities to improve...

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  • Tell us what you think: review of the Scottish Care Experience Survey Programme

    12th March 2024 by

    We are reviewing the Scottish Care Experience Survey Programme. The programme includes a suite of national surveys which provide local and national information on the quality of health and care services from the perspectives of the people using them. The programme currently consists of four surveys: The Health & Care Experience Survey (HACE) covers GP...

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  • Working as a government statistician – Giuliana Giuliani

    8th March 2023 by

    This article has been produced as part of a blog series to spotlight the work of analysts and statisticians across government. In this blog, hear from Giuliana Giuliani about her work on the Scottish Cancer Patient Experience survey. I am an Assistant Statistician in the Health and Social Care division. Since day one, I have...

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  • Future of COVID-19 Data Reporting

    5th April 2022 by

    Following the publication of Scotland’s Strategic Framework update in February 2022 we are now planning to move to a single main source of headline COVID-19 data. All headline COVID-19 data can now be sourced from Public Health Scotland’s (PHS) COVID-19 Daily Dashboard.   The Scottish Government (SG) will no longer provide updates to the Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for...

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  • Changes to COVID-19 case reporting

    13th January 2022 by

    From today, 13 January 2022, in addition to reporting the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 through a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test, we will also begin reporting a combined figure for the number of people who have recorded a first positive PCR or an LFD (lateral flow device) test. This change in reporting...

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  • Office for National Statistics COVID-19 Infection Survey

    23rd October 2020 by

    As part of Scotland’s Covid-19 testing strategy, Scotland is participating in the Office for National Statistics (ONS) COVID-19 Infection Survey. The first estimates of the percentage of people in Scotland who test positive for COVID-19 were published today, 23 October. The Scottish results are published on the gov.scot website, and on the ONS website alongside...

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  • New headline measure of COVID-19 test positivity rate

    19th October 2020 by

    We are changing the way we report the COVID-19 positivity rate as of 19 October 2020. The new approach addresses a limitation of the previous approach. This blog outlines why we are making this change and what its impact will be. Current approach The Scottish Government has been reporting data on the number of new...

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  • The Scottish COVID-19 Data and Intelligence Network

    18th August 2020 by

    by Roger Halliday, Chief Statistician For Scotland to continue to develop an approach to minimising the health, social and economic risks from COVID-19, we need robust and responsive evidence to make informed, real-time decisions in relation to the pandemic and to learn as we go.   For this reason, we have set-up the Scottish COVID-19...

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  • Planned changes to coronavirus data page on Scottish Government website

    20th July 2020 by

    Blog Updated on 28/07/2020 We have been publishing data every day since early April on the Scottish Government website. Given where Scotland is now in the pandemic, we think it’s a good time to refocus this publication. Some of the information developments in Scotland include: Public Health Scotland COVID-19 data – the weekly report published...

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  • Working as a government statistician – David Redpath

    8th January 2020 by

    With the Scottish Government welcoming applications for Assistant Statistician posts, we have a series of blog posts by government statisticians talking about how they became Assistant Statisticians. We also have some fixed term opportunities available now. If you are interested in a fixed term opportunity, please submit your up to date CV to: statistics.enquiries@gov.scot In...

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