Census 2022 - Island Groups
IslandGroups2022
The geography of Scotland comprises the mainland plus many islands. Some of these islands are inhabited and through time their inhabited/uninhabited status can change. As statistics for individual islands could reveal details about individual people, the individual islands have been grouped into 52 ‘island groups’ (excluding mainland Scotland) for 2022 Census output.
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IslandGroups2022
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2008-06-01
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2010-01-13
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2020-11-18
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2024-05-21
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islands are inhabited and through time their inhabited/uninhabited status can change. As statistics for individual islands could reveal details about individual people, the individual islands have been grouped into 52 ‘island groups’ (excluding mainland Scotland) for 2022 Census output. The ‘Islands’ table on the NRS geography 2022 Supporting Information section of the website provides basic counts of the number of household residents and households in each individual island in 2022. This is the only detail, where it is possible to produce statistics at individual island level. The reason for this is that the lowest level of geography for which Census statistics are produced is Output Area (OA). OAs are formed by aggregating Postcodes. In order to prevent disclosure of information pertaining to individuals, these OAs cannot contain less than 25 households or less than 60 residents. There are a number of individual islands that do not meet these criteria. Where an OA contains statistics for two or more islands, those islands are placed in the same ‘island group’. A total of 121 islands are classified as ‘inhabited islands’ for NRS statistical geography purposes; 19 of these islands had no usual residents at the time of the 2022 Census. The individual islands dataset is available on the Other NRS Datasets section of the NRS website (http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/geography/our-products/other-national-records-of-scotland-nrs-geographies-datasets) The boundaries in this dataset have been clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water Mark) with inland water removed. This version closely represents map users expectations of how a coastal boundary should look Inland water has also been removed as listed in the Standard Area Measurements (SAM) produced by the Office for National Statistics.
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National Records of Scotland
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Edinburgh
EH1 3YY
United Kingdom
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