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Scotland's Population 2011: The Registrar General’s Annual Review of Demographic Trends 157th Edition

Notes on statistical publications

National Statistics

The United Kingdom Statistics Authority (UKSA) has designated these statistics as National Statistics, in line with the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and keeping to the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (available at www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/assessment/code-of-practice).

This can be broadly interpreted to mean that the statistics:

• meet identified needs of users;
• are well explained and readily accessible;
• are produced according to reliable methods; and
• are managed in a fair, independent and unbiased way in the public interest.

Once statistics have been designated as National Statistics, the Code of Practice for Official Statistics must continue to be followed.

National Records of Scotland

From 1 April 2011, the General Register Office for Scotland merged with the National Archives of Scotland to become the National Records of Scotland (NRS). The GROS website will remain active until it is replaced by a new website for NRS.

We, the National Records of Scotland, are a non-ministerial department of the Scottish Government. Our aim is to provide relevant and reliable information, analysis and advice that meets the needs of government, business and the people of Scotland. We do this by:

• Preserving the past - We look after Scotland's national archives so that they are available for current and future generations, and we make available important information for family history.
• Recording the present - At our network of local offices, we register births, marriages, civil partnerships, deaths, divorces and adoptions in Scotland.
• Informing the future - We are responsible for the Census of Population in Scotland which we use, with other sources of information, to produce statistics on the population and households.

You can get other detailed statistics that we have produced from the Statistics section on our website (http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics). Statistics from the 2001 Census are on Scotland's Census Results On-Line website (www.scrol.gov.uk) and on the Census section of the GROS website (http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/census).

We provide information about future publications on our website (http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/future-publications). If you would like us to tell you about future statistical publications, you can register your interest on the Scottish Government ScotStat website at www.scotland.gov.uk/scotstat.

Enquiries and suggestions

Please visit our enquiries page if you need any further information.

If you have comments or suggestions that would help us improve our standards of service, please contact:

Kirsty MacLachlan
Senior Statistician
National Records of Scotland
Room 1/2/3
Ladywell House
Ladywell Road
Edinburgh
EH12 7TF.
Phone: 0131 314 4242
Email: [email protected]

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