Adult Support and Protection (ASP) National Minimum Dataset, 2025-26 – Technical Report
This technical report accompanies the statistical publication Adult Support and Protection (ASP) National Minimum Dataset, 2025-26 and provides more detailed information on the background and methodology used to produce the statistics, as well as notes on data quality and a glossary of terms used.
Introduction
About this publication
This document accompanies the publication Adult Support and Protection (ASP) National Minimum Dataset, 2025-26, published by the Scottish Government on 6 October 2026 as Official Statistics in Development.
It contains further information on the data collection and processing methodology, and the data quality considerations, for the publication. It also contains a Glossary of the key terms used in the Adult Support and Protection National Minimum Dataset (ASP NMDS), and full list of the indicators (data items) included in the 2025-26 ASP NMDS.