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School Leaver Destinations and Attainment linkage data - Scotland

Summary

Abstract

School leavers from all stages of publicly funded local authority secondary schools and one grant-aided mainstream school in Scotland.

Keywords

Publisher

Documentation

Description

The School Leaver Destinations and Attainment data provides information on the attainment and initial destinations of school leavers in Scotland.

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    council area

Temporal

  • Start date
    01/09/2009
  • End date
    01/09/2019
  • Frequency
    Irregular
  • Distribution release date
    21/03/2022

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

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    CSV

Enrichment and linkage

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

Data dictionary

One record per student

POSTCODESECTOR

Postcode sector of pupil’s home address

MONTHOFBIRTH

Individual's month of birth

GENDER

Gender of individual

ETHNICBACKGROUND

Ethnic background

DATAZONE01

Datazone from the 2001 census

DATAZONE2011

Datazone from the 2011 census. Only available from 2013/14 onwards.

SIMD_2016_DECILE

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation decile. Only available from 2016/17 onwards.

SIMD_2012_DECILE

As for simd_2016_decile. Only available from 2011/12 onwards.

SIMD_2009_DECILE

As for simd_2016_decile

URBRUR6J

Urban Rural 6 fold

Variable description

Data type