government-bands-from-shapefile-tables

Date: 2026-09-10. Status: implemented.

Decision. The Scottish Government unweighted quintile, decile and vigintile come from the six maps.gov.scot shapefile attribute tables, joined on data zone, one route for every edition.

Reason. The tables carry every value the four earlier government pins supplied, plus population for every edition, from one publisher with one URL pattern.

Evidence. Bands identical to the statistics.gov.scot extracts on every zone for 2004 to 2016; 2020 bands identical to the rank-to-band workbook; 2020 population identical to the ranks workbook. The SIMD2009 layer's rank equals the PHS 2009v2 rank on all 6,505 zones.

Columns (18): simd2004_uw_scotland_decile, simd2004_uw_scotland_quintile, simd2004_uw_scotland_vigintile, simd2006_uw_scotland_decile, simd2006_uw_scotland_quintile, simd2006_uw_scotland_vigintile, simd2009v2_uw_scotland_decile, simd2009v2_uw_scotland_quintile, simd2009v2_uw_scotland_vigintile, simd2012_uw_scotland_decile, simd2012_uw_scotland_quintile, simd2012_uw_scotland_vigintile, simd2016_uw_scotland_decile, simd2016_uw_scotland_quintile, simd2016_uw_scotland_vigintile, simd2020v2_uw_scotland_decile, simd2020v2_uw_scotland_quintile, simd2020v2_uw_scotland_vigintile