Loanhead Library event - Midlothian Science Festival

A workshop was run in the Loanhead Library to help the locals to interrogate the Census website to find out key stats about the area. 

 

 

 

 

 

The workshop covered 

- use of the Census Data Explorer to get key facts for the Loanhead area

- use of DataShine Scotland to draw thematic maps 

- exploring the UK parliamentary constituency profile for Midlothian

- checking out the latest fashions in baby names!

The following are some key links used along with some illustrations of what the results looked like

 

Standard outputs

-> select the locality of Loanhead

 

 

-> Get Data will display a list of topics

-> Choose the tenure tab under the household topic and repeat for both years

2011

 

2001

 

 

-> Try DataShine Scotland to illustrate

Patterns of people aged 16 and over who are single
 

 

Patterns of social rented households

 

Overviews of constituencies are summarised using graphs

  UK parliamentary constituency profiles for Scotland

 

Baby Names

 

Finally we looked at the population NRS publication on Baby Names,with its associated visualisation.

 

 

 

The Midlothian Science Festival aims are:

• To run enjoyable science activities in Midlothian appealing to a large, diverse audience of all ages and backgrounds, from professionals to novices, from science enthusiasts to the merely curious.
• To provide a non-threatening entry point for local people from a varied demographic area (including rural and deprived areas) to engage with science.
• To provide role models for careers in the form of festival staff, volunteers and presenters who work in STEM in the local area.
• To showcase current and historical science originating within Midlothian.
• To demonstrate Midlothian’s contribution and importance to science and technology at a global level and to broaden the horizons of future generations of scientists.

Cycling in the Outer Hebrides - Isle of Skye

Spent a week cycling from Barra to Lochmaddy, then from Uig in Skye to Mallaig with various journeys on the train and ferry en-route.  As ever pondered what the Census says about this area and have investigated some key demographics of the major islands on the way.

Off to Isle of Skye to battle through wind and rain

Boundary

Population change
 

The usually resident population increased by 762 from 9251 in 2001 to 10013 in 2011.

This change was not spread evenly across age groups which is illustrated in the figure above.

In 2001, 19 per cent of the population was aged 0 to 15 years old.  This decreased to 17 per cent in 2011. There were also a reduction in the percentage of the population aged 30 to 44 from 21 per cent in 2001 to 17 per cent in 2011.

In 2001, 14 per cent of the population was aged between 60 and 74 years old, with a further 9 per cent aged 75 years and over.  In 2011, these had changed to 20 percent aged between 60 and 74 and  8 per cent aged 75 year and over.

In order to understand this change, it is necessary to look at statistics on migration and mortality statistics.

Some other key census 2011 stats on Isle of Skye

There are 4456 occupied households , 841 unoccupied household spaces which are second or holiday home, and 106 unoccupied household spaces which are vacant

20 per cent of people aged 16 and over living in households are single

30 per cent of people aged 3 and over can speak Gaelic

17 per cent of people aged 3 and over speak Gaelic at home

5 per cent of people stated their religion as Roman Catholic

50 per cent of people aged 16 to 74 are employed full-time or part-time

14 per cent of people aged 16 to 74 are self-employed

Cycling in the Outer Hebrides - North Uist/Uibhist A Tuath

Spent a week cycling from Barra to Lochmaddy, then from Uig in Skye to Mallaig with various journeys on the train and ferry en-route.  As ever pondered what the Census says about this area and have investigated some key demographics of the major islands on the way.

Ended the day with a tour of North Uist/Uibhist A Tuath

Boundary

Population change
 

The usually resident population decreased by 8 from 1320 in 2001 to 1312 in 2011.

This change was not spread evenly across age groups which is illustrated in the figure above.

In 2001, 20 per cent of the population was aged 0 to 15 years old.  This decreased to 13 per cent in 2011. There were similar reductions in the percentage of the population aged 30 to 44 from 23 per cent in 2001 to 15 per cent in 2011.

In 2001, 17 per cent of the population was aged between 60 and 74 years old, with a further 8 per cent aged 75 years and over.  In 2011, these had increased to 23 percent aged between 60 and 74 and  11 per cent aged 75 year and over.

In order to understand this change, it is necessary to look at statistics on migration and mortality statistics.

Some other key census 2011 stats on Benbecula / Beinn Na Faoghla

There are 629 occupied households , 100 unoccupied household spaces which are second or holiday home, and 16 unoccupied household spaces which are vacant

28 per cent of people aged 16 and over living in households are single

62 per cent of people aged 3 and over can speak Gaelic

49 per cent of people aged 3 and over speak Gaelic at home

5 per cent of people stated their religion as Roman Catholic

53 per cent of people aged 16 to 74 are employed full-time or part-time

12 per cent of people aged 16 to 74 are self-employed