All SQA Qualifications linkage data - Scotland

Summary

Abstract

Students presenting for Scottish Qualification Authority examinations from all stages of publicly funded local authority secondary schools and one grant-aided mainstream school in Scotland.

• 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.

    https://www.gov.scot/collections/school-education-statistics/

    File name

    ADR S Data Sourcing All SQA Qualifications NRS Indexing Report July 2025

    Type

    .PDF

    Download file

    File name

    ADR S Data Sourcing All SQA Qualifications Metadata

    Type

    .XLSX

    Download file
• Is part of
  • School education statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Coverage

Spatial

• Spatial coverage

  Scotland

• Geographic levels
  council area

Temporal

• Start date
  01/09/2008
• End date
  01/09/2022
• Frequency
  Irregular
• Distribution release date
  Not available

Provenance

• Purpose
  Administrative
• Source
  Education attainment
• Collection situation
  Scottish Qualifications Authority

Access and governance

• Conditions of access
  Access needs approval

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Usage

• Conditions of use
  Application of Statistical Disclosure Control
• Resource creator
  Scottish Government
• Is referenced by
  Not available

Access

• Access rights
  https://www.adruk.org/data-access/trusted-research-environments/#c4819
• 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
  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.