7.1 The Scottish Government Urban Rural Classification is updated every two years and the most recent update was in August 2012. More information can be found in the Urban Rural section of the Scottish Government website.
7.2 Community Health Partnership boundaries have been revised several times since their creation; the most recent revision occurred in October 2012. At this time the 34 CHP boundaries were re-aligned to Local Authorities boundaries. The most up-to-date CHP boundaries can be found in the Human Health and Safety section of the Scottish Government website.
7.3 The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2012 is an update with improvements on previous SIMD. Improvements to indicators and the methodology have resulted in the SIMD 2012 not being directly comparable in absolute terms with those in previous years. The most recent publication was in December 2012 and more information can be found on the SIMD section of the Scottish Government website.
7.4 Life expectancy estimates for 2000-2002 to 2008-2010 have been updated to use the revised population estimates for 2002 to 2010, published in December 2013, and are based on the definitions of current boundaries and areas in October 2014. As a consequence of these changes in boundaries and classfications comparisons between the revised and unrevised life expectancy estimates for 2000-2002 to 2008-2010 for these areas is difficult. However, the underlying trends and messages in the revised data are broadly consistent with those for the unrevised data for these areas and