Welcome to the Statistical area of our website.
The Department collects, analyses and publishes a wide range of statistical information about Scotland’s people.
For a full list of all our statistical publications, listed both in alphabetical order in
Publications A - Z [1] and by topic in Publications by topic [2].
For Key statistical trends on: Council Area Profiles [3]; High Level Summaries [4]; Infographics and interactive data visualisations [5]; and the Registrar General’s Annual Review [6].
More detailed information on topics such as Households [7], Life Expectancy [8], Population [9], Migration [10], Vital Events [11] (births, deaths and marriages) and Electoral Statistics [12].
This section describes the background to National and official statistics [13], the policies and practices used to produce them and our revisions policy that details how we deal with Revisions and Corrections [14] to our data.
Information on consultation groups and seminars [15] associated with the National Records of Scotland (NRS).
Related links [16] to various information pages on our website, for example Future Publications, Glossary and Enquiries pages.
Links:
[1] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/publications-a-z
[2] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/publications-a-z/publications-by-topic
[3] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/stats-at-a-glance/council-area-profiles
[4] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/stats-at-a-glance/high-level-summary-of-statistics-trends
[5] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/stats-at-a-glance/infographics-and-visualisations
[6] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/stats-at-a-glance/registrar-generals-annual-review
[7] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/households
[8] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/life-expectancy
[9] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population
[10] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/migration
[11] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events
[12] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/electoral-statistics
[13] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/about-our-statistics/national-and-official-statistics
[14] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/about-our-statistics/revisions-and-corrections
[15] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/user-consultation-groups-and-seminars
[16] https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-related-links