Scottish Government Statistics

The Scottish Government provides access to official government news, publications and consultation papers, including published official statistics via their main web site. The latest statistics related content can be viewed under the Topics menu.  Additional statistical content can be found under the Publications menu, filtered on TYPE 'research and statistics'.

A large amount of previously published content which has not yet been migrated to this site can be found via the Scottish Government statistics archive site.

The statistics.gov.scot data portal provides access to around 250 different datasets comprising official statistics about Scotland from a variety of data producers.  The site provides access to statistics and indicators drawn from key government data sources including the Scottish Surveys Core Questions, Scottish Household Survey, Scottish Health Survey, and Scottish House Condition Survey.

Scottish Government (gov.scot)

Scottish Government Statistics (archive site)

Scottish Government Data Portal (statistics.gov.scot)

All official statistics produced by Scottish Government are freely available under the Open Government Licence (OGL) as Crown Copyright.

The National Archive Guidance on re-using public sector information