1 Life expectancy figures for Scotland and the other UK constituent countries are also produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) using complete life tables based on single years of age. Figures in this part of the publication are from abridged life tables based on grouped years. For more details go to Section 7.1.
2 Deciles split the data into 10 groups. Here, decile 1 has the 651 most deprived data zones, decile 2 the next 650 data zones according to deprivation ranking, and so on, up to decile 10 which has the 650 least deprived data zones.