Statistics
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Analytical exchange programme 2022
31st January 2022 by Helen Davidson
by Roger Halliday, Chief Statistician The Analytical Exchange programme matches analysts working in Scotland with voluntary sector organisations requesting help around data, analysis, statistics and research on very short, sharp projects. These can be anywhere between an afternoon to 10 working days. Individuals or small groups of statisticians, economists or researchers then act as…
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Scottish Government Assistant Statistician Recruitment
25th January 2022 by Helen Davidson
Scottish Government recently launched a recruitment campaign for assistant statisticians at B1, B2 and B3 grades. We are recruiting for a variety of roles across the stats group across all grades. We have statisticians working in all parts of Government, from economy to education, from the Census to climate change, from housing to health. The…
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Sign up to the new ScotStat
17th January 2022 by Helen Davidson
By Roger Halliday, Chief Statistician, Scottish Government. Keeping users of our statistics informed of the latest developments such as new publications, events or consultations is a crucial task for our statisticians. One of the key ways we do this is through ScotStat, our email notification system. I’m pleased to announce then that we are investing…
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Changes to COVID-19 case reporting
13th January 2022 by Helen Davidson
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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Research Data Scotland – Information Governance Progress
12th August 2021 by Kate Lyne
Who We Are Research Data Scotland (RDS) is a collaboration between the Scottish Government, Scotland’s leading academic institutions and public bodies. Our aim is to improve economic, social and environmental wellbeing in Scotland. We will do this by enabling access to and linkage of data about people, places and businesses for research in the public…
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Research Data Scotland moving forward
21st July 2021 by Kate Lyne
by Roger Halliday, Chief Statistician Developments are progressing at pace for the launch of the Research Data Scotland (RDS) service. Publishing the Outline Business Case for RDS is an important milestone in this work. The business case highlights the strong case for RDS and the reasoning behind why we’ve set it up. To improve the…
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Improving completeness of data on protected characteristics
23rd June 2021 by Kate Lyne
by Roger Halliday, Chief Statistician Last year, our data on ethnicity was shown not to be adequate. It was incomplete and so our understanding of the impact of Covid-19 on different parts of society wasn’t as good as it could be. To overcome this, the independent Expert Reference Group on COVID-19 and Ethnicity recommended a…
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Could this be the last December Agricultural Survey?
23rd March 2021 by Ally McAlpine
Welcome to the first blog on Agricultural Statistics. Through this regular note we will update farmers, agents and other people interested in agricultural food production and associated supply chains on gathering statistics through surveys and other methods. The statistical teams in the Rural and Environmental Sciences and Analytical Services (RESAS) Division support many policy areas…
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Working Group on Sex and Gender in Data – March update
23rd March 2021 by Office of the Chief Statistician
By Roger Halliday, Chief Statistician Back in summer 2019 I was asked by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People to develop guidance to support public bodies collect and present data on sex and gender. The aim of the work isn’t simply guidance for its own sake, but to create the conditions…
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Working Group on Sex and Gender in Data – December update
10th December 2020 by Office of the Chief Statistician
By Roger Halliday, Chief Statistician It has been a few months since my last update on the sex and gender in data working group, and that is down to the work being paused while I have been focussed on jointly leading the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 Modelling and Analysis team. Through this we have been providing…