Scottish Government

Type of information

Included in official statistic

Excluded from official statistics

Statistics and analysis produced by or on behalf of

1. Statistics units in Directorates within the Scottish Government

2. Statisticians in Executive agencies (Inspectorate of Education and the Social Work Inspection Agency)

3. General Register Office for Scotland (GROS)

4. Information Services Division (ISD) of NHS Scotland on behalf of central government

All regular and planned statistical publications and subsequent publication in statistical compendia.

Analysis produced mainly for internal purposes, for Parliamentary Questions or user enquiries.

Statistics on devolved matters produced by statistics units in UK Government Departments and agencies, including the Forestry Commission and cross border authorities.

As above

As above

Quantitative outputs produced by or for researchers in government

Major repeating surveys managed by researchers - at present only the Crime & Justice Survey.

Longitudinal surveys, opinion and attitude surveys and ad hoc surveys carried out in support of research

Other quantitative information produced as part of research.

Financial information

Where the process of compilation has undergone statistical validation to ensure the principles of the Statistics Code are met is included. At present this includes local government finance statistics and a range of public expenditure statistics.

Most central government budget and expenditure data.

Scientific data

Only where it forms an input to a broader statistics output.

All other scientific data.

Some jointly produced statistics or analysis such as Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland (GERS) where the overall process is managed in line with Official Statistics procedures.

Everything else.

Statistics produced by public sector bodies including local government