Sexual health: data introduction
The following sexual health data pages provide access to detailed statistics on, amongst other things, abortion, teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections in Scotland. Most of the data are available through hyperlinks to the Women and Children’s Health Information Programme pages on the ISD Scotland website. The data are generally available as either downloadable Excel files or are contained within dowloadable reports in PDF format.
Table 1 summarises the dimensions/geographies at which the data are presented, either within the data pages which follow or through hyperlinks to other websites.
Table 1: Data for Scotland available through the sexual health data pages
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Data presented? | |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Data dimensions/geographies |
Abortion | Teenage pregnancy |
Sexually transmitted infections |
| By gender |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| By age group |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| By deprivation group |
Y |
N |
N |
| By NHS board area |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| By local authority area |
Y |
Y |
N |
| By community health partnership (CHP) area |
N |
N |
N |
| Time trend |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| National target |
N |
Y |
N |
| Comparison with UK/GB |
N |
N |
Y |
| International comparison |
N |
Y |
N |
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