User Guidance and Support

Given ongoing interest and demand from users, NRS funded work to develop a package of support and tools to help interested users to produce their own sub-council area projections. This work was delivered in partnership with Professor Ludi Simpson and Dr Alan Marshall at Edinburgh University.

What do I need to produce my own sub-council area projections?

POPGROUP is an Excel-based system for demographic forecasting within Council Local Plans.

What help is available?

User guidance for producing sub-council area projections – provides detailed, step-by-step, guidance on how to develop and produce your own projections using POPGROUP.

Instructional Videos – information on key demographic concepts and tutorials on how to produce local area population projections in POPGROUP.

Data utility tool – This helps users to aggregate official statistics to the sub-council areas of interest and to prepare the POPGROUP input files using these aggregated data.

Keep up-to-date

If interested in receiving updates about population projections, including any work related to sub-council projections, please register your interest in these statistics using ScotStat.