Service Leavers Database linkage data - Scotland

Summary

Abstract

The Service Leavers Database - Scotland is a dataset provided by the Ministry of Defence containing records of UK armed forces leavers. The extract contains information on any service personnel who have left the service since circa 1975.

• Contact point
  statistics.enquiries@gov.scot
• Digital object identifier (DOI)
  Not available

Keywords

Publisher

• Identifier
  https://ror.org/04v2xmd71
• Name
  Scottish Government
• Logo
  
• Description
  https://www.gov.scot
• Contact point
  statistics.enquiries@gov.scot

Documentation

Description

• Associated media

  • Available resource files can be downloaded below.

    File name

    ADR S Data Sourcing Service Leavers Database Scotland Metadata

    Type

    .XLSX

    Download file

    File name

    ADR S Data Sourcing Service Leavers Database Scotland NRS Probabilistic Indexing Report

    Type

    .PDF

    Download file
• Is part of
  • Not available

Coverage

Spatial

• Spatial coverage

  Scotland

• Geographic levels
  country

Temporal

• Start date
  01/01/1975
• End date
  31/12/2023
• Frequency
  Annual
• Distribution release date
  Not available

Provenance

• Purpose
  Administrative
• Source
  Other
• Collection situation
  Not available

Access and governance

• Conditions of access
  Access needs approval

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Usage

• Conditions of use
  Application of Statistical Disclosure Control
• Resource creator
  Ministry of Defence
• Is referenced by
  Not available

Access

• Access rights
  https://www.adruk.org/data-access/trusted-research-environments/#c4817
• Access service
  Access to this data is through submitting a completed application form to the mailbox: statistics.enquiries@gov.scot. The application form is available here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-government-statistics-request-our-data/, Find out about accessing secure datasets for research at https://www.researchdata.scot/accessing-data/data-access-overview/
• Jurisdiction
  GB-SCT
• Data controller
  Ministry of Defence, Scottish Government
• Data processor
  Not Applicable

Format and standards

• Language
  English
• Format
  Csv

Enrichment and linkage

• Related datasets
  • Not available
• Linkage opportunity
  These datasets have been created through the ADR Scotland programme to enable linkage by using the National Records of Scotland population spine. https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/national-records-of-scotland-indexing-team
• Tools
  • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset.