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It is well known that physical activity has a positive effect on mental health, but there is some debate over whether the domain in which individuals take part in physical activity is important. For example, does engaging in active travel to work have the same benefits as walking or cycling in your leisure time? Research shows that cycling to work, when compared to all other modes of commute, reduces the likelihood of experiencing mental ill-health - specifically anxiety and depression.
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This Data Insight from Chris Dibben and Laurie Berrie expands on their previous 2022 cycling to work research, by showing a direct link between commuting by bicycle and improved mental health.
This is an update of a previous ADR Scotland report that compared rates of children under one year of age becoming looked after by Local Authorities in Scotland and in England. The focus of this report is on children starting care under one year (infants), who make up a large proportion of children in care. As well as updating trends, we have used the longitudinal data to map the pathways of individual children who started care as infants and characterise different types of care history.
Previous research has shown that deaths at home increased by over a third during Covid-19. Our current project, asks how and to what degree patterns of hospitalisation changed.
This document summarises the process of creating a longitudinal dataset based on annual returns of looked after children data supplied by local authorities (LAs) to Scottish Government (SG). The data come from LA Management Information Systems (MIS), and are collected for administrative purposes. The Administrative Data Research (ADR) Scotland programme has funded this work to create a linkable dataset which is available for research purposes, in the public benefit
This Data Insight from researchers David Henderson, Jan Savinc and Iain Atherton explores the risk of mortality due to Covid-19 and other causes for people aged 65+ in the first wave of the pandemic in Scotland.
In this Data Insight, we explore how COVID-19 mortality rates vary by occupation for women and men in Scotland in the period between 1st March 2020 and 31st January 2021. Using a national novel linked data collection, we contrast preliminary results for Scotland with those from a similar linked data study for England.
The Digitising Scotland project digitised 25.8 million Scottish civil registration vital events records, including digitising birth, marriages and deaths, from when records began in 1855 until 1973 (from 1974 records became digital). To use these pre-digital records effectively for large-scale full life history research, they must not only be made machine-readable, but also coded in a suitable research ready format – including the broad classification of some of the information gathered.
This Data Insight from researcher Dr Beata Nowok, uses the Scottish Historic Population Platform (SHiPP), to investigate past disease outbreaks to find parallels and learn lessons that help us respond better.
Composite classes (also known as “multi-grade classes”) combine pupils from adjacent years into a single classroom. This classroom structure is widespread yet understudied. Quirks in the Scottish institutional structure allow us to clearly identify the casual effect of composite classes on pupils’ attainment. We also study the effects of class size which is an alternative policy lever that has been shown to affect attainment.
