Publications & reports

Dataset-specific publications, such as Data Explained documents and user guides, can be found on the ADR UK Data Catalogue or on Flagship datasets.

10 February 2025

Data Insight: Were people with health vulnerabilities more likely to be fined by the police during the Covid-19 pandemic?

This Data Insight explores whether people who had accessed health services for conditions relating to mental ill health, drug use and alcohol misuse were more likely to receive fixed penalty notices (FPNs) during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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8 October 2024

Data Insight: Growing up in kinship care

This Data Insight by Dr Joanna Soraghan and Dr Robert Porter explores the experiences of children and young people in Scotland who have spent time living with a family member or family friend while in care – known as ‘kinship care’. The Growing Up in Kinship Care study makes use of the Scottish Government’s Longitudinal Looked After Children dataset.

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19 November 2021

Data Insights: Automatic coding of occupations: Methods to create the Scottish Historic Population Database (SHPD) (November 2021)

This Data Insight from ADR Scotland describes the work of the Digitising Scotland project, which digitised 25.8 million Scottish civil registration vital events records, including digitising birth, marriages and deaths, from when records began in 1855 until 1973.

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Data Insight: Were people with health vulnerabilities more likely to be fined by the police during the Covid-19 pandemic?

Data Insight: Growing up in kinship care

Data Insights: Automatic coding of occupations: Methods to create the Scottish Historic Population Database (SHPD) (November 2021)

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