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National Records of Scotland (NRS) - Deaths Data

Summary

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Abstract

All registrations to the National Records of Scotland of deaths. Please note that cause of death information for the previous year is provisional and is only finalised in August of the subsequent year.

Keywords

Deaths HDRUK

Publisher

  • Identifier
  • Name
    Public Health Scotland
  • Logo
  • Description
    Public Health Scotland is an NHS Board. We are uniquely sponsored by the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) on behalf of local government.
  • Contact point

Documentation

Description

All registrations to the National Records of Scotland of deaths
  • Associated media

    • Available resource files can be downloaded below.

      File name

      Data Dictionary National Records Of Scotland (NRS) Deaths Data%4010.0.2

      Type

      .XLSX

      File name

      Templatemetadataxmlfile HDR Lookups

      Type

      .XML

  • Is part of
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Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    United Kingdom, Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    Not available

Temporal

  • Start date
    Not available
  • End date
    Not available
  • Frequency
    Not available
  • Distribution release date
    30/09/2025

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Not available
  • Source
    Not available
  • Collection situation
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Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
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Usage

  • Conditions of use
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  • Resource creator
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  • Is referenced by
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Access

  • Access rights
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  • Access service
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  • Jurisdiction
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  • Data controller
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  • Data processor
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Format and standards

  • Language
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  • Format
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Enrichment and linkage

  • Related datasets
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  • Linkage opportunity
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  • Tools
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Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data Dictionary

MONTH AND YEAR OF BIRTH

Date of birth

DATE_OF_DEATH

Date of Death

AGE

Age at death in years

SEX

1 = male, 2 = female

ETHNICITY_CODE

Only available from 2012

UNDERLYING_CAUSE_OF_DEATH

The disease or injury that initiated the train of events leading directly to death, or t...

CAUSE_OF_DEATH_CODE_0

A disease, morbid condition or injury that either resulted in or contributed to death (u...

CAUSE_OF_DEATH_CODE_1

CAUSE_OF_DEATH_CODE_1

CAUSE_OF_DEATH_CODE_2

CAUSE_OF_DEATH_CODE_2

CAUSE_OF_DEATH_CODE_3

CAUSE_OF_DEATH_CODE_3

Variable description

Data type
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