Finding data

The Scottish Register of Employment is an industrial database, collected using a variety of sources, in order to gather information about Scottish Industry for use by the Scottish Executive. It was discontinued in 1993 as new survey results containing this information became available from the Office of National Statistics (the Annual Census of Production).

A set of industrial time series data for Scotland; specifically numbers of enterprises and employees, split by various standard industrial classifications, for the time period 1950 to 1993.

Spatial Coverage:

Scotland

Data Creator:

Scottish Executive.

Time Period:

Annual time series, 1950-1993. Superceded by the Office of National Statistics' Annual Census of Production.

Data Publisher:

University of Edinburgh

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Documentation:

This study description is the only documentation available.

Note:

Provided to the Data Library by Simon Marshall at the Scottish Executive in July 1999, to preserve and publicly disseminate, free of charge.
Also available from the Data Archive using study number 4085.

File Information

File Descriptions:

The data was received as an Excel file with two tables. Both provide total number of enterprises and employees per year. One provides industry groups by 2-digit SIC codes (1992 based), the second groups industries into broader classifications. The second table also provides a break-down of UK-owned and non-UK-owned enterprises.

File Storage :

Written to CD-ROM 1/2000.

Format:

Excel and ASCII comma-delimited (csv) versions.

Data Access:

Edinburgh University users may contact the Data Library for access.

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