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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.

Keywords

Veterans ADR Scotland Administrative Administrative Data Research Armed forces

Publisher

Documentation

Description

The dataset comprises select variables from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Service Leavers Database (SLD). The SLD holds information on any service personnel who have left the UK armed forces since circa 1975. The database is updated monthly from the MoD Joint Personnel Adminstration (JPA) system with details of UK armed forces personnel who have left the services in the preceding month. This extract contains only records of individuals who have lived in Scotland.
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Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    country

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/01/1975
  • End date
    31/12/2023
  • Frequency
    Annual
  • Distribution release date
    10/04/2025

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

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    CSV

Enrichment and linkage

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

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