National Records of Scotland (NRS) - Births Data

Summary

Abstract

All Registrations to the National Records of Scotland of live births

• Contact point
  phs.edris@phs.scot
• Digital object identifier (DOI)
  Not available

Keywords

Publisher

• Identifier
  https://ror.org/023wh8b50
• Name
  Public Health Scotland
• Logo
  
• Description
  Public Health Scotland is an NHS Board that is uniquely sponsored by the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) on behalf of local government.
• Contact point
  phs.edris@phs.scot

Documentation

Description

• Associated media
  • Not available
• Is part of
  • Not available

Coverage

Spatial

• Spatial coverage

  United Kingdom, Scotland

• Geographic levels
  Not available

Temporal

• Start date
  01/01/1981
• End date
  31/12/2025
• Frequency
  Monthly
• Distribution release date
  31/12/2025

Provenance

• Purpose
  Other
• Source
  Other
• Collection situation
  Other

Access and governance

• Conditions of access
  General research use, Project-specific restrictions, Research-specific restrictions

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Usage

• Conditions of use
  Disclosure control, Institution-specific restrictions, Not for profit use
• Resource creator
  National Records Scotland
• Is referenced by
  Not available

Access

• Access rights
  https://publichealthscotland.scot/services/data-research-and-innovation-services/electronic-data-research-and-innovation-service-edris/services-we-offer/
• Access service
  Scottish National Safe Haven / Trusted Research Environment: https://publichealthscotland.scot/services/data-research-and-innovation-services/electronic-data-research-and-innovation-service-edris/national-safe-haven-nsh/
• Jurisdiction
  Great Britain
• Data controller
  National Records Scotland
• Data processor
  National Records Scotland

Format and standards

• Language
  English
• Format
  Text, csv

Enrichment and linkage

• Related datasets
  • Not available
• Linkage opportunity
  Not available
• Tools
  • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset. 

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