This report shows a table of statistics for less common geographical areas relevant to people living or working in these areas or those responsible for related policy or service delivery. New reports will be added as demand arises. The indicators for each report have been pre-determined either to provide a set of interesting statistics for a less common geographical area or to act as a set of performance indicators.

There are three steps to take to run this report. First select the type of area that you are interested in. At present these are:

Scottish Parliamentary Regions – Parliamentary Regions are aggregates of constituencies. Scotland is divided into 8 parliamentary Regions and each region elects 7 regional MSPs.

Urban Regeneration Companies – The Pathfinder Urban Regeneration Companies bring together the public and private sectors, to drive forward the delivery of urban regeneration initiatives.

Regional Transport Partnerships - The seven regional transport partnerships are responsible for ensuring that everyone involved in transport planning in their region considers the case for investment and infrastructure, and guides and co-ordinates the transport planning of individual councils in the delivery of that strategy.

Police Forces - Police and Fire Service Area boundaries correspond to the local government region boundaries that were in existance between 1975 and 1996. There are 8 areas.

Deprived Areas 2006- The 15% cut-off is used in Scottish Government analysis to define deprived areas, as this cut-off identifies the highest concentrations of multiple deprivation in Scotland and the distribution of deprivation from most to least deprived, begins to shallow after the 15% most deprived data zones.

Deprived Areas 2009- The 15% cut-off is used in Scottish Government analysis to define deprived areas, as this cut-off identifies the highest concentrations of multiple deprivation in Scotland and the distribution of deprivation from most to least deprived, begins to shallow after the 15% most deprived data zones.

Local Authority Deprived Areas 2006- Local Authority Deprived Areas. Data zones in each local authority within the 15% most deprived data zones based on SIMD 2006.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) - is the Scottish Government's economic and community development agency for a diverse region which covers more than half of Scotland. The HIE area is comprised of 8 area offices: Argyll and the Islands; Caithness and Sutherland; Inner Moray Firth; Innse Gall; Lochaber, Skye and Wester Ross; Moray; Orkney; Shetland. These area offices have been defined to reflect a number of distinct economies within the area of Highlands and Islands. Each of the area offices is built up from the data zones

National Park - National Park boundaries are not coterminous with the data zone geography. National Park boundaries within SNS have been created from the data zone building block on a 'best-fit' basis by assigning data zones to each park based on the location of their centroid. The data zone centroids are population weighted, meaning that the location of the centroid accurately represents the location of the majority of the population. Though the actual park boundaries may not match those generated from data zones, in terms of population, the percent difference between the two are very small(1.89% for the Cairngorms National Park and 3.77% for Loch Lomond and the Trossachs). Areas where known mis-match occurs in the Cairngorms National Park are the area around Boultenstone and Dinnet to the East of the park, Glen Clova to the south west, Glenlivet to the north east, and the area east of Loch Laggan. For Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, mis-match occurs near Balloch, Killin, eastern shores of Loch Earn and the area around Glenbranter. Users should be aware that any calculations based on the actual park boundaries will differ slightly from those based on the data zone aggregation boundaries.

Community Justice Authorities - Eight local Community Justice Authorities (CJAs) have been established to provide a co-ordinated approach to planning and monitoring the delivery of offender services by planning, managing performance and reporting on performance by local authorities or groups of local authorities. Their aim is to target services to reduce reoffending and to ensure close co-operation between community and prison services to aid the rehabilitation of offenders. Each CJA consists of a Chief Officer, elected members of local authorities and support staff. All eight CJAs have been fully operational since April 2007.

NUTS2 - NUTS was created by the European Office for Statistics (Eurostat) as a single hierarchical classification of spatial units used for statistical production across the European Union. NUTS 2 in Scotland is a combination of council areas, LECs and part thereof.

SDP areas - Strategic Development Plan (SDP) areas cover the four largest city regions around Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Strategic Development Plans will be produced for each of these areas.

UHI - UHI Millennium Institute (UHI) is the only higher education institution based in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. UHI provides access to university-level education through a distinctive educational partnership of colleges and research institutions (the UHI academic partners). Each academic partner has its own character and contributes to the distinctive organisation that is UHI Millennium Institute.

NUTS3 - NUTS was created by the European Office for Statistics (Eurostat) as a single hierarchical classification of spatial units used for statistical production across the European Union. NUTS 3 in Scotland is a combination of council areas, LECs and part thereof

NUTS4(LAU1) - NUTS was created by the European Office for Statistics (Eurostat) as a single hierarchical classification of spatial units used for statistical production across the European Union. NUTS 4 have been superseded by LAU (Local Administrative Units), introduced in July 2003. The names and codes of the NUTS 4 are from 31/12/01. In Scotland is a combination of council areas, LECs and part thereof.

NOTE: Boundary maps of the above geographical areas are available on the SNS Forum - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/sns/BoundMap

Once you've selected an area type you then have to select a specific area in the second drop down box. The list will depend on which type of report you've selected in the first box.

The final drop down box allows you to select whether you are interested in the most recent data or a time series of data for the indicators you've selected. If you select most recent data it will only show the latest year or quarter of data loaded onto the site. The time series option will show every year or quarter loaded for each indicator. This will vary across the indicators and more information can be found in the meta data for each indicator.