The Scottish Government

Scottish Government Links

Related Areas

• ScotStat Measuring Deprivation Advisory Group The Scotstat Measuring Deprivation Advisory Group provides the Office of the Chief Statistician with advice on measuring deprivation as it works to implement the long term strategy for measuring deprivation in Scotland.
• Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics (SNS) is the Scottish Government's on-going programme to improve the availability, consistency and accessibility of small area statistics in Scotland.
• Social and Welfare Statistics Covers a broad range of subjects including statistics on: social justice, households, families and individuals, income and welfare, and equality.

Links to websites other than the Scottish Government

Measuring deprivation across the United Kingdom

• Indices of deprivation across the UK An overview, by the Office for National Statistics, describing the similarities and differences between the Indices of Deprivation across the United Kingdom.
• Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2005 (WIMD) is the official measure of deprivation for small areas in Wales.
• English Indices of Deprivation The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007 combines a number of indicators, chosen to cover a range of economic, social and housing issues, into a single deprivation score for each small area in England.

• Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure The Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure (NIMDM) 2005 identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across Northern Ireland.

General

• Department for Work and Pensions Tabulation Tool Dissemination tool providing a source of small area benefits data collected from the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS).
• Information Services Division (ISD) NHS Scotland Scotland's national organisation for health information and statistics.
• General Register Office for Scotland Source of statistics on the size, location and characteristics of Scotland's population collected from the population census every ten years.
• NOMIS Offical Labour Market Statistics Nomis is a service provided by the Office for National Statistics to give access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources.
• Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) National body responsible for the collection, analysis and publication of statistical information of qualifications in Scotland other than degrees.