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Scottish Health on the Web
SHOW provides a hosting service for NHS Scotland websites. It is one of the most comprehensive sources of information about issues relating to health in Scotland.
In the provision of health care at a national level, there are many organisations |
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Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
SIGN has a large programme of evidence-based clinical guidelines - published, in development, or under review - covering a wide range of topics. Many SIGN guidelines relate to the NHS priority areas of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental heal |
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Department of Health London Statistics
Almost all current and many old DH publications, including statistical reports, surveys, press releases, circulars and legislation, are available in electronic form on this website. |
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NHS Health Scotland
The Public Health Instititute for Scotland and the Health Education Board for Scotland were brought together in 2003 to form NHS Health Scotland. Health Scotland's overall aim is to provide leadership and work with partners to improve health and red |
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The Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS)
The Scottish Executive has commissioned a comprehensive survey of substance use and lifestyle factors among secondary school children in Scotland. The survey is based on the previous series of biennial surveys of smoking, drinking and drug use among |
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The Scottish Social Attitudes Survey
The Scottish Social Attitudes Survey like the British Social Attitudes series aims to chart and interpret attitudes on a range of social, political, economic and moral issues. The questionnaire covers political behaviour and attitudes, a core section |
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The Scottish School Leavers Survey
This survey contains information on Scottish School leavers. Main topics covered are: Perceptions of school, reasons for staying on at or leaving school, help with decision making, employment and training activity, job satisfaction, socio-economic an |
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The Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS)
The survey is in two parts - a physical inspection of the property by a building professional and a socio-economic interview with one of the householders. In 1996, approximately one in every 100 homes in Scotland took part in the survey.
The inter |
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Scottish Health Survey
Smallest Geographic Unit Reported: Scottish Regions: some individual health boards and amalgamations of several health boards. Method of Data Collection: Face to Face CAPI & Measurements taken from Nurse Visits. Geographical break-downs within Scot |
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Scottish Household Survey
The survey covers a range of issues but focuses, in particular, on the areas of transport, local government and social inclusion issues such as housing, health and personal finances. Over the first four years of the survey, a total of some 62,000 int |
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The Scottish Crime Survey
National surveys have now been carried out in 1993, 1996, 2000 and 2003. The main aims of the survey are stated to be:
Provide an alternative measure of crime to the police recorded crime statistics
Examine trends in the level and nature of cr |
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The Health Education Population Survey (HEPS)
NHS Health Scotland (formerly the Health Education Board for Scotland HEBS) is one of a number of agencies in Scotland with a role in improving the health of people in Scotland. A core element of their work is to increase public awareness of health-r |
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Social Work Statistics
The Accounts Commision produce annual reports on a range of key performance indicators covering all Scottish Councils. For social work, these indicators include: community care assessments and reviews (by care care group); children looked after (by |
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Other U.K. Statistics
The National Statistics web-site contains U.K. data (and links) for a large selection of 'themes' including crime & justice, economy, education & training, health & care, labour market, social and welfare. |
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Injury Road Accidents
Data is available going back to at least 1979 as computerised records. Access is on request to the Scottish Executive Transport Statistics Department: |
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Homelessness
The Scottish Executive web site for recent reports. |
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Higher Education Statistics Agency
HESA is the central source for the collection and dissemination of statistics about publicly funded UK higher education. |
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Economy
The NOMIS web-site is a key web source for information on the economy, containing unemployment data, New Earnings Survey data, employment data, Labour Force Survey data and vacancy data. Access to this data, is free. |
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Drugs Misuse
ISD Scotland. The address of the 'Drugs Misuse in Scotland web-site', which provides more details on Scottish drugs misuse data and related publications, is given below:
The Centre of Drugs Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow, in conjunct |
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Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation Over the last few years the Scottish Executive have consulted widely with users on the development of a small area geography (data zones) for use in Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics to allow statistics across a |
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Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics
Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics is the Scottish Executive's on-going programme to improve the availability, consistency and accessibility of small area statistics in Scotland. The information will support a number of the Executive's targets. The |
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Scotstat Website and Links
The Scotstat website is a developing system providing links to many sources of Scottish Statistics and publications across the whole spectrum.
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NHS Scotland Information & Statistics Division (ISD) Data
ISD are responsible for developing and delivering generic information services, including publications, definitions, an information request service and parliamentary questions. They have also identified several programmes of work that focus on the k |
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Benefit Statistics
A range of benefit statistics have been made available on the National Statistics web-site, including claimant figures for: Income Support, Family Credit, Jobseeker's Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, S |
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General Register Office for Scotland (GRO(S)) Data
In addition to 2001 census information, the GRO(S) website includes comprehensive data on - among other items - population (estimates/projections) and "vital events" (births, deaths etc.). Much of this is included within the electronic version of the |
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2001 census
The vast majority of results from Scotland's Census are available online via the SCROL website at http://www.scrol.gov.uk The General Register Office for Scotland (GRO(S)) web site contains details of the 2001 census and links to other web-sites of i |
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Census
Smallest Geographic Unit Available: Output Area. Sample: a count of all the people and households in Scotland (and other parts of the UK) on the census date. Self-completion Questionnaire. Frequency: every 10 years.
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Scottish Public Health Observatory
A new on-line resource, the Scottish Public Health Observatory is a collaboration between NHS Health Scotland (formerly Public Health Institute for Scotland) and the Information and Statistics Division of NHS Scotland (ISD). The website provides inf |
