Dave RawnsleyDave Rawnsley gives a brief introduction to Scotland’s Census 2022 data that is now available via the UK Data Service catalogue.
On Tuesday 21 May, the National Records for Scotland (NRS) released its first tranche of unrounded data from the delayed 2022 Census of Scotland. A total of 24 tables are available at Output Area lebanon rcs data (OA), the smallest level of geography available at an area that contains approximately 50 households. The data tables are also available for Health Board Area, Scottish Parliamentary Constituency and UK Parliamentary Constituency level as well as other administrative zones.
An image of one of the newly available datasets.
The released tables are in three topic areas – ‘Demography and Migration’,’ Housing’ and ‘Ethnic Group, National Identity, Language and Religion’.
The first key finding of this release is that, according to NRS, “a majority of people said they had no religion”. A total of 51.1% in Scotland’s Census 2022 responded ‘no religion’ – up from 36.7% in 2011. ‘No religion’ was the most common response in almost every council area in Scotland. In Na h-Eileanan Siar, ‘Church of Scotland’ remained the most common response and in Inverclyde ‘Roman Catholic’ was the most common response.