Since spring 2020, the Scottish Government has been publishing daily COVID-19 management information on the Scottish government website. These include figures for daily data and past data and trend charts for the daily updates on COVID-19. Both of these webpages are updated every day 7 days a week, with latest available information.
- Daily data: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-daily-data-for-scotland/
- Past data: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-trends-in-daily-data/
The data here provide past data for the daily updates provided for information and re-use in a high quality, well described technical form. This platform is distinct from the Public Health Scotland open data website.
These datasets contain historic trend data, which have been kept as published open data for transparency purposes. The currently published datasets as open data include:
- The daily number of people in hospital with recently confirmed in Scotland
- Daily delayed discharges
- Reported number of COVID-19 tests and number of new cases reported in Scotland.
- Cumulative number of COVID-19 confirmed deaths registered to date
- Daily attendance and absence in schools in Scotland.
It is Management Information, which is collected and distributed each day in order to support understanding of the progress of the outbreak in Scotland. The information comes from different administrative systems and as such there may be variations in the quality of the data and is subject to revision if new information becomes available.
More information on the individual data sources can be found at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-data-definitions-and-sources/
Confidentiality Policy
This dataset does not contain any sensitive or personal information. Individual people’s details are not named.
Quality Management
The data are management information which are collected and distributed each day in order to support understanding of the progress of the outbreak in Scotland. The information comes from different administrative systems and as such there may be variations in the quality of the data and is subject to revision if new information becomes available. These issues are largely a reflection of the continually developing response to the pandemic.
Accuracy and Reliability
This dataset gathers together information as published on https://www.gov.scot/publications/trends-in-number-of-people-in-hospital-with-confirmed-or-suspected-covid-19/.
Coherence and Comparability
The Department of Health and Social Care publishes UK figures on behalf of all UK Chief Medical Officers. Test results from Scotland are included in the overall UK figure. Public Health Scotland publish daily data on their open data platform. https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/covid-19-in-scotland
Accessibility and Clarity
This information around COVID-19 is published each day on the Scottish Government website https://www.gov.scot/publications/trends-in-number-of-people-in-hospital-with-confirmed-or-suspected-covid-19/.
Relevance
These data are important for informing health services and other public and private sector organisations, and the general public as a whole as to the spread of the COVID-19 disease across Scotland.
Timeliness and Punctuality
The latest numbers will be published shortly on the Scottish Government website after 2pm each day, 7 days a week, up to 23 December 2020, these data will be also published as open data on github every weekday. From 23 December, these data will be published every Wednesday on github and will contain daily data for the preceding days. These data will continue to be published on a daily basis on the Scottish Government website at 2pm. We will review the frequency of the open data publication as required in response to ongoing user needs.
Revisions
The data are management information which are collected and distributed each day in order to support understanding of the progress of the outbreak in Scotland. The information comes from different administrative systems and as such is subject to revision if new information becomes available. These issues are largely a reflection of the continually developing response to the pandemic.