This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for the Religion (in 12 categories) by sex by age (in 6 categories) by Individuals in Scotland.

Age

A person's age on Census Day, 20 March 2022. Infants aged under 1 year are classified as 0 years of age.

Sex

This is the sex recorded by the person completing the census. The options were "Female" and "Male". Guidance on answering the question can be found here

Religion

This is a person’s current religious denomination or body that they belong to, or if the person does not have a religion, ‘No Religion’. No determination is made about whether a person was a practising member of a religion.

Religion is a voluntary question and 6.2% of the population did not provide a response. Please be aware that when we state percentages these are out of the whole population, not just those that provided a response. Our approach to imputation is also different for voluntary questions. Not stating a religion is considered to be a valid response, so we do not impute a religion for those who responded to the census but did not answer the religion question. However, we do impute religion for those who did not respond at all to the census. 'Not stated’ is one of the values that can be imputed for religion. More information on our edit and imputation method is available on the Scotland’s Census website.

Classification and comparison with 2011 census can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for the Religion by Individuals in Scotland.

Age

A person's age on Census Day, 20 March 2022. Infants aged under 1 year are classified as 0 years of age.

Sex

This is the sex recorded by the person completing the census. The options were "Female" and "Male". Guidance on answering the question can be found here

Religion

This is a person’s current religious denomination or body that they belong to, or if the person does not have a religion, ‘No Religion’. No determination is made about whether a person was a practising member of a religion.

Religion is a voluntary question and 6.2% of the population did not provide a response. Please be aware that when we state percentages these are out of the whole population, not just those that provided a response. Our approach to imputation is also different for voluntary questions. Not stating a religion is considered to be a valid response, so we do not impute a religion for those who responded to the census but did not answer the religion question. However, we do impute religion for those who did not respond at all to the census. 'Not stated’ is one of the values that can be imputed for religion. More information on our edit and imputation method is available on the Scotland’s Census website.

Classification and comparison with 2011 census can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for the Religion by Individuals in Scotland.

Religion

This is a person’s current religious denomination or body that they belong to, or if the person does not have a religion, ‘No Religion’. No determination is made about whether a person was a practising member of a religion.

Religion is a voluntary question and 6.2% of the population did not provide a response. Please be aware that when we state percentages these are out of the whole population, not just those that provided a response. Our approach to imputation is also different for voluntary questions. Not stating a religion is considered to be a valid response, so we do not impute a religion for those who responded to the census but did not answer the religion question. However, we do impute religion for those who did not respond at all to the census. 'Not stated’ is one of the values that can be imputed for religion. More information on our edit and imputation method is available on the Scotland’s Census website.

Classification and comparison with 2011 census can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here

This statistic shows the distribution of religious beliefs in Scotland in 2018. Approximately 36 percent of people claimed that they were a Christian denomination, with the majority of those belonging to the Church of Scotland. On the other hand, over half of the respondent group said that they didn't identify themselves as having a religion.

The data shows country of birth by religion by sex for all people classified according to the 21 multi-member wards within Glasgow based on the 2011 Census outcomes. Please click here for the source metadata. Data supplied by Scotland Census 2011 which is run by the National Records of Scotland (c) Crown copyright 2014. Licence: None

The table shows ethnic groups by religion for each of the 21 multi-member wards in Glasgow based on the 2011 Census outcomes. Ethnic group classifies people according to their cultural background. Data supplied by Scotland Census 2011 which is run by the National Records of Scotland (c) Crown copyright 2014. Licence: None

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for the Ethnic Group by Individuals in Scotland.

Ethnic group

Ethnic group classifies people according to their own perceived ethnic group and cultural background. Whilst the main ethnic group categories have not changed from the question asked in Census 2011, some of the detailed response options and write-in prompts for Scotland's Census 2022 were changed based on stakeholder engagement and subsequent question testing.

Details of classification can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here

The data shows national identity by religion for each of the 21 multi-member wards within Glasgow based on the 2011 Census outcomes. For more information on the source metadata please click here Data supplied by Scotland Census 2011 which is run by the National Records of Scotland (c) Crown copyright 2014. Licence: None

The second Scottish Church Census was carried out on May 11-12, 2002. Comparable studies have been conducted in Scotland in 1984 and 1994 and in England in 1979, 1989, 1998 and 2005. All were organized and led by Dr Peter Brierley, executive director of the organization Christian Research prior to his retirement in 2007.

The aim of the study was to ascertain the number and frequency of people attending church of all denominations in Scotland in 2002. Several denominational changes had taken place in Scotland since the last census in 1994 ("https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=4395#!/details" Target="_blank">SN 4395) and 1984 ("https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=2554" Target="_blank">SN 2554). Political changes, with the formation of the Scottish Parliament, had brought about boundary changes for many councils, by which church attendance was previously analyzed. A combination of denomination, political and population changes had necessitated a revision of church attendance. In particular the study was to evaluate if the age structure of churchgoers had altered over the past decade and to establish if the trend in decline in the number of young people attending Sunday worship in England was true of Scotland.

In 2023/24, *** religious hate crime charges were reported to the public prosecution service in Scotland, compared with the previous year when there were ***.

Data for the Output zone associated with OAL-UK (S00091368) for Scottish Census 2011 (the latest census for which information is available). The files show data for OAL-UK compared to the whole of Scotland for the following socioeconomic criteria: population, health, education, labour and employment, ethnicity, religion, language, household composition. Scottish Census data can be explored and downloaded at: https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for the Country of Birth by Individuals in Scotland.

Country of birth

Country of birth is the country in which a person was born. Users should be mindful of changes in EU members and accession states between 2011 and 2022. This will affect the number of countries which make up certain categories when comparing the results between censuses.

Details of classification can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for the Main language by Individuals in Scotland.

Main language

Categorises individuals into groups based on their main language. The choices from the census question involves choices between "English" and "Other, please write in (including British Sign Language (BSL) and tactile BSL)".

Details of classification can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The UK censuses took place on 27 March 2011. They were run by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency (NISRA), National Records of Scotland (NRS), and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for both England and Wales. The UK comprises the countries of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.Statistics from the UK censuses help paint a picture of the nation and how we live. They provide a detailed snapshot of the population and its characteristics and underpin funding allocation to provide public services. This is the home for all UK census data. The 2011 Census Microdata Individual Safeguarded Sample (Regional): Scotland data collection forms part of the statistical outputs from the 2011 Scotland Census. A safeguarded microdata sample of individuals has been identified as a key Census user requirement, and was highlighted as part of a report specifying microdata products from the 2011 Census written by an expert user, Dr. Jo Wathan from the University of Manchester. The purpose of a safeguarded sample of individuals is to be able to disseminate a detailed microdata file without onerous licensing conditions, by reducing the overall amount of detail compared to the secure samples. Whilst supplying sufficient detail on core variables to fulfil the intended aim of the microdata products, the safeguarded sample is a valuable multi-purpose research file that will be used on a wide range of projects. (For Censuses prior to 2011, these data may have been referred to as 'Samples of Anonymised Records', or SARSs.) This safeguarded sample is of 5% of the total population at Region level (Scotland), and contain a similar level of detail to the equivalent End User Licence Census 2001 Microdata samples. A similar Scotland dataset at Local Authority level is held under SN 7835. These samples have a low risk of disclosure; but not nil. Registered UK Data Service Census users can download the data to their laptops after agreeing terms and conditions that include constraints on data management under remote storage conditions. Further information can be found on the Scotland's Census Supporting Information webpage. Corresponding Regional and Local Authority level data for England and Wales are held under SNs 7605 and 7682, and for Northern Ireland under SNs 7769 and 7770. Main Topics: The variables cover: age; household composition and dharacteristics; provision of unpaid care; number of cars and vans; nature of (communal) establishment; central heating; client Groups; country of birth; education and qualifications; health and disability; housing and tenure; deprivation indicators; long-term health problems; distance travelled to work; children; economic Activity; employment; language skills; ethnic groups; general health; hours worked per week; national identity; marital status; household mobility; National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC); pensions; pensioner households; number of persons per room; religion; household relationships; Census return by internet or paper; social grade; sex; Single Adult Household; student accommodation; schoolchild or student in full-time education; whether usual resident, student living away, or short-term resident; unemployment history; year of arrival in UK (England and Wales).

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The UK censuses took place on 27 March 2011. They were run by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency (NISRA), National Records of Scotland (NRS), and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for both England and Wales. The UK comprises the countries of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Statistics from the UK censuses help paint a picture of the nation and how we live. They provide a detailed snapshot of the population and its characteristics and underpin funding allocation to provide public services. This is the home for all UK census data.

The 2011 Census Microdata Individual Safeguarded Sample (Regional): Scotland data collection forms part of the statistical outputs from the 2011 Scotland Census. A safeguarded microdata sample of individuals has been identified as a key Census user requirement, and was highlighted as part of a report specifying microdata products from the 2011 Census written by an expert user, Dr. Jo Wathan from the University of Manchester.

The purpose of a safeguarded sample of individuals is to be able to disseminate a detailed microdata file without onerous licensing conditions, by reducing the overall amount of detail compared to the secure samples. Whilst supplying sufficient detail on core variables to fulfil the intended aim of the microdata products, the safeguarded sample is a valuable multi-purpose research file that will be used on a wide range of projects. (For Censuses prior to 2011, these data may have been referred to as 'Samples of Anonymised Records', or SARSs.)

This safeguarded sample is of 5% of the total population at Region level (Scotland), and contain a similar level of detail to the equivalent End User Licence Census 2001 Microdata samples. A similar Scotland dataset at Local Authority level is held under SN 7835. These samples have a low risk of disclosure; but not nil. Registered UK Data Service Census users can download the data to their laptops after agreeing terms and conditions that include constraints on data management under remote storage conditions.

Further information can be found on the Scotland's Census Supporting Information webpage.

Corresponding Regional and Local Authority level data for England and Wales are held under SNs 7605 and 7682, and for Northern Ireland under SNs 7769 and 7770.


Main Topics:


The variables cover: age; household composition and dharacteristics; provision of unpaid care; number of cars and vans; nature of (communal) establishment; central heating; client Groups; country of birth; education and qualifications; health and disability; housing and tenure; deprivation indicators; long-term health problems; distance travelled to work; children; economic Activity; employment; language skills; ethnic groups; general health; hours worked per week; national identity; marital status; household mobility; National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC); pensions; pensioner households; number of persons per room; religion; household relationships; Census return by internet or paper; social grade; sex; Single Adult Household; student accommodation; schoolchild or student in full-time education; whether usual resident, student living away, or short-term resident; unemployment history; year of arrival in UK (England and Wales).

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for the Age (in 20 categories) by sex by Individuals in Scotland.

Age

A person's age on Census Day, 20 March 2022. Infants aged under 1 year are classified as 0 years of age.

The quality assurance report can be found here

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The UK censuses took place on 29th April 2001. They were run by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency (NISRA), General Register Office for Scotland (GROS), and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for both England and Wales. The UK comprises the countries of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Statistics from the UK censuses help paint a picture of the nation and how we live. They provide a detailed snapshot of the population and its characteristics, and underpin funding allocation to provide public services.

The aggregate statistics produced as outputs from UK censuses provide information on a wide range of demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population of the United Kingdom. They are predominantly a collection of aggregated, or summary counts of the numbers of people, families or households resident in specific geographical areas or ‘zones’ possessing particular characteristics, or combinations of characteristics drawn from the themes of population, people and places, families, ethnicity and religion, health, work, and housing.

Aggregate statistics are available for the full range of geographies employed within the census, from the smallest (output areas with an average of 150 persons in England and Wales), to national level. For further information about the geographies used in the output of census aggregate statistics, see the section on census geography in the Office for National Statistics’ Beginner’s Guide to UK Geography.

Data can be accessed through InFuse.

Citation
Through InFuse:
Office for National Statistics (2011): 2001 Census aggregate data (Edition: May 2011). UK Data Service. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5257/census/aggregate-2001-2

Through Casweb:
Office for National Statistics; General Register Office for Scotland; Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (2005): 2001 Census aggregate data (Edition: 2005). UK Data Service. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5257/census/aggregate-2001-1

Main Topics:
Accommodation type (brief)Accommodation type (detailed)
Adults, Number Employed in Household
Adults, Number in Household
Age
Age of Family Reference Person (FRP)
Age of Household Reference Person (HRP)
Age of Students and Schoolchildren
Amenities
Armed Forces
Bath/Shower and Toilet, use of
Care (unpaid), Provision of
Care, Provision of
Carers and their Economic Activity, Number of
Cars and vans
Central heating
Children
Children, dependent
Communal Establishment Residents
Communal establishment, combined type and management
Concealed families
Country of birth
Country of Birth (additional categories)
Daytime Population
Dwelling Type
Economic Activity
Economic Activity of Associated People Resident in Households
Economic Activity of Full-time students
Economic Activity of Household Reference Person (HRP)
Ethnic group (England and Wales)
Ethnic group (England and Wales) of Household Reference Person
Family composition
Family status
Family type
Health, General
Hours worked
Household composition
Household composition (alternative classification)
Household dependent children
Household deprivation
Household Reference Person indicator
Household size
Household Space Type
Household Type
Households with students away during term-time
Industry
Industry, former
Limiting long-term illness
Limiting Long-Term Illness (LLTI), Household residents with
Limiting long-Term Illness, number of people with in household
Living arrangements
Living arrangements of Household Reference Person (HRP)
Lowest floor level
Marital status
Migration (armed forces)
Migration (Communal establishment)
Migration (People)
Multiple ethnic identifier
Occupancy Rating
Occupation (brief)
Occupation (detailed)
Occupation, former
Pensioner household
People aged 17 or over in household, Number of
Population Type
Public transport users in households
Qualifications (England and Wales)
Qualifications, highest level of (England and Wales)
Qualifications, professional
Religion (England and Wales)
Religion (England and Wales) of Household Reference Person
Resident Basis
Resident Type
Rooms in a dwelling, number of
Rooms, Number of
Rooms, Persons per
Sex
Sex of Household Reference Person (HRP)
Single Adult Households
Social Grade of Household Reference Person (HRP), approximated
Social Grade, approximated
Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC)
Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) of Household Reference Person (HRP)Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) of Household Reference Person (HRP), Main categories of
Student accommodation (Standard Output)
Student...

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for the Multiple ethnic groups in household in Scotland.

Multiple ethnic groups in household

'Multiple ethnic groups' classifies households by the diversity in ethnic group of household members in different relationships - for example, different ethnic groups between generations or within partnerships. The ethnic group of each household member is coded according to the hierarchy document containing 19 categories for ethnic groups and then compared to obtain the classification below.

Details of classification can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The UK censuses took place on 27 March 2011. They were run by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency (NISRA), National Records of Scotland (NRS), and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for both England and Wales. The UK comprises the countries of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.Statistics from the UK censuses help paint a picture of the nation and how we live. They provide a detailed snapshot of the population and its characteristics and underpin funding allocation to provide public services. This is the home for all UK census data. The 2011 Census Microdata Individual Safeguarded Sample (Regional): England and Wales data collection forms part of the statistical outputs from the 2011 UK Census. A safeguarded microdata sample of individuals has been identified as a key Census user requirement, and was highlighted as part of a report specifying microdata products from the 2011 Census written by an expert user, Dr. Jo Wathan from the University of Manchester. The purpose of a safeguarded sample of individuals is to be able to disseminate a detailed microdata file without onerous licensing conditions, by reducing the overall amount of detail compared to the secure samples. Whilst supplying sufficient detail on core variables to fulfil the intended aim of the microdata products, the safeguarded sample is a valuable multi-purpose research file that will be used on a wide range of projects. (For Censuses prior to 2011, these data may have been referred to as 'Samples of Anonymised Records', or SARSs.) In total, five microdata samples are proposed from the 2011 Census:one public, a Teaching File of individuals (see SN 7613);two safeguarded, one file of individuals at regional level (this study, SN 7605) and one at local authority level (see SN 7682);and two secure, one file of households and one of individuals This safeguarded sample is of 5% of the total population at Region level, and contain a similar level of detail to the equivalent End User Licence Census 2001 Microdata samples. These samples have a low risk of disclosure; but not nil. Registered UK Data Service Census users can download the data to their laptops after agreeing terms and conditions that include constraints on data management under remote storage conditions. Further information can be found on the Office for National Statistics Census microdata webpage. Corresponding Regional and Local Authority level data for Northern Ireland are held under SNs 7769 and 7770, and for Scotland under SNs 7834 and 7835. Main Topics: The variables cover: Usual address one year ago; Age of individual; Age of household; reference person; Distance travelled to work; Alternative Household Composition; Provision of unpaid care; Number of cars and vans; Central heating; Establishment caters for specific group (physical disability; learning disability; mental illness; intermediate care; substance misuse; end of life care; respite care; chronic illness care; acute illness care; older people; school children; university and/or college students; armed forces personnel; prisoners/offenders; asylum seekers; paying guests; homeless people; nurses/doctors; staff; seasonal/temporary workers; other); Country of birth; Country of birth of household reference person; Whether concealed family; Country of residence; Education selected characteristics, household indicator; Employment selected characteristics, household indicator; Health and disability selected characteristics, household indicator; Housing selected characteristics, household indicator; Deprivation indicators of a household; Long-term health problems; Family dependent children; Economically active; Employment type; Nature of establishment; Ethnic group of household reference person; Ethnic group; Family status; General health; Household language; Level of highest qualifications; Hours worked per week; Number of people in household who provide care; Other National identity (not UK and Irish); Number of individuals in household with long-standing illness/disability; Industry of business; Intention to stay in the UK; International Standard Classification of Occupations – 2 digit codes; Type of landlord; English proficiency; Living arrangements; Last year worked; Main language; Marital Status; Multiple ethnic identifier; Migration indicator; Wholly moving household indicator; Household multiple religion indicator; Distance moved from address one year ago; Region of Origin; British national identity; English national identity; Irish national identity; Northern Irish national identity; Other national identity; Scottish national identity; Welsh national identity; National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification; Household reference person NS-SEC; Standard Occupational Classification – 2 digit codes; Passports held; Exact pension age (on Census Day) indicator; Pensioner household; Person of pensionable age indicator; Whether usual resident, student living away, or short-term resident; Position within communal establishment; Number of persons per room; Other Passports held (Not including UK and Ireland); Government Office Region; Relationship to household reference person; Religion; Household or communal establishment; Census return by internet or paper; Cohabiting same-sex couples; Type of second address; Household reference person social grade; Approximated social grade; whether accommodation is self-contained; Sex; Single adult household; Single adult households; Standard Occupation Classification - 3 digit codes; Stay at second address by country of second address; Student accommodation; Schoolchild or student in full-time education; Supervisor; Tenure of dwelling; Tenure; Travel to work; Type of accommodation; Unemployment history; Number of visitors on census night; Workers in generation one of family; Place of work; Whether reads Welsh (Wales only); Whether speaks Welsh (Wales only); Whether understands Welsh (Wales only); Whether writes Welsh (Wales only); Comparison of where you live and work; Workplace; Usual address one year ago was a student term-time/boarding school address in the UK; and Year of Arrival in UK (England and Wales).

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for the Gaelic language skills (in 7 categories) by age (in 6 categories) by Individuals in Scotland.

Age

A person's age on Census Day, 20 March 2022. Infants aged under 1 year are classified as 0 years of age.

Gaelic Language skills

A classification of a persons skills in the Gaelic Language

Details of classification can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here