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Injuries: key data sources
Injury-related statistics are available from a wide range of sources including population surveys, health care and mortality datasets, and routine administrative sources. Although the term 'injury' is preferred to that of 'accidents', a number of data sources still refer to 'accidents'.
Deaths data sources
Health data sources
- Scottish Morbidity Record SMR01 (see also SMR01 data items)
- European Injury Database (IDB)
- European Health for All (HfA) Database explorer
- Scottish Burden of Disease study
- Eurostat - Accidents at work
Survey data sources
- Scottish Health Survey
- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 2013
- Labour Force Survey
Police recorded data sources
Indicator / profiles tools
ScotPHO profiles indicators relevant to injuries:
Children and young people profile:
- Unintentional injuries in under 5s: emergency hospital admissions for unintentional injury in children under 5; 3-year rolling average number and directly age-sex standardised rate per 100,000.
Health and wellbeing profile:
- Road traffic accident casualties: patients discharged from hospital after an emergency admission or died as a result of a road traffic accident; 3-year rolling average number and directly age-sex standardised rate per 100,000.