area_lookup {phsmethods}

Codes and names of Scottish geographical and administrative areas.

Description

A dataset containing Scotland's geography codes and associated area names. It is used within match_area().

Usage

area_lookup

Format

A tibble::tibble() with 2 variables and over 17,000 rows:

geo_code

Standard geography code - 9 characters

area_name

Name of the area the code represents

Details

geo_code contains geography codes pertaining to Health Boards, Council Areas, Health and Social Care Partnerships, Intermediate Zones, Data Zones (2001 and 2011), Electoral Wards, Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies, UK Parliamentary Constituencies, Travel to work areas, National Parks, Community Health Partnerships, Localities (S19), Settlements (S20) and Scotland.

Source

https://statistics.gov.scot/

See Also

The script used to create the area_lookup dataset on GitHub.