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Births: a data cube spreadsheet

Number of births by gender that were registered in a calendar year, or occurred in a mid-year period (1 July to 30 June).

Count (Births) for values of Time Period
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Filter Areas by type:
Reference Area Calendar Year
Countries
Scotland 49,863
Council Areas
Aberdeen City 2,260
Aberdeenshire 2,400
Angus 965
Argyll and Bute 631
City of Edinburgh 4,683
Clackmannanshire 414
Dumfries and Galloway 1,153
Dundee City 1,417
East Ayrshire 1,176
Dimensions
Dimension
Value
Gender
  1. All
  2. Female
  3. Male
Measure Type
  1. Count
Reference Period
  1. 1999
  2. 2000
  3. 2001
  4. 2002
  5. 2003
  6. 2004
  7. 2005
  8. 2006
  9. 2007
  10. 2008
  11. 2009
  12. 2010
  13. 2011
  14. 2012
  15. 2013
  16. 2014
  17. 2015
  18. 2016
  19. 2017
  20. 2018
  21. 2019
Time Period
  1. Between Mid Points Of Years
  2. Calendar Year
Reference Area
(showing types of area available in these data)
  1. Countries
  2. Council Areas
  3. Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies
  4. Health Board Areas
  5. Electoral Wards
  6. 2011 Intermediate Zones
  7. 2011 Data Zones
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License
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Issued
29/07/2014
Modified
17/03/2021
Next update due
September 2021
Description

The National Records of Scotland (NRS) is responsible for the organisation and administration of the records of births in Scotland.

Data on births for calendar years relate to the date of registration of the event and not the date of occurrence. Data on births between mid points of years are based on date of occurrence and refer to the number of births which occurred between 1 July of the previous year and 30 June of the year specified in the data.

Births are counted on the basis of the area of usual residence of the mother if that is in Scotland, otherwise they are counted on the basis of the place of birth.

Further information on births statistics, and other vital events, is available on the NRS website.

Details
Confidentiality Policy

This dataset does not contain any sensitive or personal information.
Quality Management

Information about the quality management process for births data are available on the NRS website.
Accuracy and Reliability

The UK Statistics Authority has designated NRS vital events statistics as National Statistics, in line with the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and signifying compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (available on the UK Statistics Authority website).

National Statistics status means that official statistics meet the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and public value.
Coherence and Comparability

These figures are on a different basis from the vast majority of NRS published statistics of births, which are based on the calendar year in which the birth was registered. The "mid-year to mid-year" basis is used only in connection with population estimates and projections.

Details on other data sources for birth statistics are available on the NRS website.
Accessibility and Clarity

Statistical information about births and other vital events is available in alternative formats, such as high level summaries and reports, from the vital events pages on the NRS website.
Relevance

Examples of uses of vital events statistics can be accessed in a report published on the NRS website.
Timeliness and Punctuality

This dataset will be updated annually, typically in early autumn.
Revisions

In February 2019, we updated our methodology for allocating datazones to higher geographies to align with Government Statistical Service Geography Policy. This resulted in revisions to some aggregated figures at Electoral Ward and Scottish Parliament Constituency level.
URI

This slice of multidimensional data is not a Linked Data resource in the database: it's a virtual resource (i.e. you can't query it by SPARQL). But does have a permanent unique URL which can be bookmarked.

http://statistics.gov.scot/slice?dataset=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdata%2Fbirths&http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Flinked-data%2Fcube%23measureType=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdef%2Fmeasure-properties%2Fcount&http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Flinked-data%2Fsdmx%2F2009%2Fdimension%23refPeriod=http%3A%2F%2Freference.data.gov.uk%2Fid%2Fyear%2F2019&http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdef%2Fdimension%2Fgender=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdef%2Fconcept%2Fgender%2Fall
Dimensions Linked Data

A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values

Dimension Locked Value
Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
 Count
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/measure-properties/count
Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
 2019
http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/year/2019
Gender
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/gender
 All
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/concept/gender/all
Reference Area
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refArea
 (not locked to a value)
Time Period
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/timePeriod
 (not locked to a value)