Pupil Census linkage data - Scotland

Summary

Abstract

Children attending publicly funded local authority and grant-aided schools in Scotland.

Contact point

statistics.enquiries@gov.scot
Digital object identifier (DOI)

Not available

Keywords

ADR Scotland Administrative Data Research Administrative Children and young people Children Education Publicly funded schools Annual census

Publisher

Identifier

https://ror.org/04v2xmd71
Name

Scottish Government
Logo
Description

https://www.gov.scot
Contact point

statistics.enquiries@gov.scot

Documentation

Description

The pupil census covers all publicly funded schools in Scotland (local authority and grant-aided). Pupils included in this census are those recorded by the school as being on the roll of the school except those in full time education at another institution.

Associated media
- Available resource files can be downloaded below.
  
  https://www.gov.scot/collections/school-education-statistics
  
  https://www.researchdata.scot/news-and-insights/interview-with-an-analyst-pupil-census/
  
  File name
  
  Pupil Census Data Dictionary
  
  Type
  
  .XLSX
  
  Download file
  
  File name
  
  Pupil Census Indexing Report
  
  Type
  
  .PDF
  
  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

15/09/2007
End date

15/09/2024
Frequency

Irregular
Distribution release date

19/03/2026

Provenance

Purpose

Administrative
Source

Electronic survey
Collection situation

Local 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/#tab-c4821
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/nrs-indexing/
Tools
- Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset.

Data dictionary

One record per class

Table:

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CLASS_NAME

Class Name

P1

Number of P1 pupils in class

P2

Number of P2 pupils in class

P3

Number of P3 pupils in class

P4

Number of P4 pupils in class

P5

Number of P5 pupils in class

P6

Number of P6 pupils in class

P7

Number of P7 pupils in class

FTE_NTS

FTE of Other Non-teaching staff

FTE_TEACHERS

FTE Teacher Contact Time

Variable name	Variable description	Data type
class_name	Class Name
p1	Number of P1 pupils in class
p2	Number of P2 pupils in class
p3	Number of P3 pupils in class
p4	Number of P4 pupils in class
p5	Number of P5 pupils in class
p6	Number of P6 pupils in class
p7	Number of P7 pupils in class
fte_nts	FTE of Other Non-teaching staff
fte_teachers	FTE Teacher Contact Time