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Children and young people: key data sources
Routine administrative data:
- Our page on Scottish national data schemes provides links to sources of data on primary care, secondary care, and deaths.
- The Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) can provide researchers with linked data from various current Scottish administrative and statistical sources.
Survey data:
- Growing Up in Scotland (GUS): a longitudinal survey launched in 2005.
- The Scottish Health Survey (SHeS): a cross-sectional survey launched in 1995.
- The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey: since 1987 HBSC has been providing data for Scotland, and other countries, about every four years.
- The Family Resources Survey (FRS): FRS data are used by the Scottish Government to measure child poverty.
- COVID-19 Early Years Resilience and Impact Survey (CEYRIS): a survey conducted by Public Health Scotland to help understand the impact of COVID-19 and associated restrictions on mental health and wellbeing in the early years.
- The National Dental Inspection Programme (NDIP): from 2003.
- The Maternal and Infant Nutrition Survey: a UK-wide survey to 2010, then Scotland-only in 2017.
- The Health and Wellbeing Census (HWB Census): during the 2021/22 school year a number of Local Authorities across Scotland took part in the HWB Census.
- The Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS): SALSUS data are available from 2002 to 2018.
