ScotSID by healthcare service contacted, age ...
Information on probable suicides registered in Scotland in the period 2011-2019, by healthcare service contacted prior to death, age and sex. The period for contact before death is 3 months for A&E Attendance, and 12 months for all other services.
Data Dictionary
| Column | Type | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| HealthcareService | text | What is open data? - Freely avaliable, reusable, structured, machine readable, never identifiable, etc The Scottish Health & Social Care Open Data Portal - Single platform, managed by us, easy to use, etc Policy & Legal context - Scottish Government Open Data Strategy Open Data vs Data Sharing What makes up an Open Data Dataset Open Data in numbers - number of publications, how often its updated, NHS aspects is covers Type of Data We Publish Who uses open data The open data team - our roles, how we maintain n respond to queries Benifits & Impact Challenges & Future Direction Explore & Learn - contains some links etc Q&A | |
| TimeRange | text | Denotes the calendar years covered by this dataset. This summarises 14 years' worth of data from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2024. | |
| Country | text | 9-digit code for NHS Scotland as a whole. | |
| Age | text | Refers to the individual's age at death. Ages have been arranged in four different groups. | |
| Sex | text | The individual's sex. | |
| IndividualsCount | numeric | The total number of individuals whose underlying cause of death is classified as ‘intentional self-harm’ or ‘event of undetermined intent’. | |
| IndividualsCountQF | text | A qualifier to give extra information about the individual count. |
Additional Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Data last updated | October 28, 2025 |
| Metadata last updated | February 11, 2020 |
| Created | February 11, 2020 |
| Format | text/csv |
| License | UK Open Government Licence (OGL) |
| created | over 5 years ago |
| datastore active | True |
| format | CSV |
| has views | True |
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| last modified | 1 day ago |
| mimetype | text/csv |
| on same domain | True |
| package id | bb51bb74-fc42-48c1-bf51-ea71418150a1 |
| revision id | 0ad3af65-6138-414b-bb12-b5805d6bb7af |
| size | 3.5 KiB |
| state | active |
| url type | upload |