National Islands Plan Survey: final report

This report presents the findings from the National Islands Plan Survey. The research explores perceptions of island life in relation to the strategic objectives set out in the National Islands Plan.


5. Secondary data sources

National Records of Scotland (NRS) 2020-2 Scottish Postcode Directory - Postcode Index: Contains NRS data © Crown copyright and database right [2021].

NRS 2011 Census Indexes: © Crown copyright. Data supplied by National Records of Scotland.

NRS 2020-2 Scottish Postcode Directory - Geography metadata: Contains NRS data © Crown copyright and database right [2021].

NRS Island boundaries - Islands 2020: Contains NRS data © Crown copyright and database right [2021], Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [2021]. (Note: these data were also provided by NRS in August 2020 and used in analysis. Guidance provided by NRS is also acknowledged).

NRS Census Output Areas 2011 (Clipped to the coastline with inland water removed (MHW)): Copyright National Records of Scotland, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (2020).

Scotland's Census tables LC1117SC (Output Areas), DC1117SC (Council Areas): © Crown copyright. Data supplied by National Records of Scotland.

Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line: Contains OS data © Crown Copyright [and database right] (2020).

Ordnance Survey 1:250 000 Scale Colour Raster: © Crown copyright and/or database right 2019 OS.

OS OpenMap Local (Full Colour Raster): Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2020.

Software acknowledgements

R Core Team (2019, 2020). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. https://www.R-project.org/

Jacob Kaplan (2020). fastDummies: Fast Creation of Dummy (Binary) Columns and Rows from Categorical Variables. R package version 1.6.3. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fastDummies

R Core Team (2020). foreign: Read Data Stored by 'Minitab', 'S', 'SAS', 'SPSS', 'Stata', 'Systat', 'Weka', 'dBase', .... R package version 0.8-81. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=foreign

Esri (2019) ArcGIS Desktop 10.7.1.

Contact

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