Background notes

 National Census Kinship Care Indicator

A variable derived from the 2022 national census. This includes children and young people (aged below 18 years old) who are not living with their parents and report one of the following relationships to the household reference person – step child, brother or sister, step-brother or step-sister, grandchild or other relation.

Data quality and revisions

Data included in this publication come from the 2022 National Census, accessed through the Scotland’s Census Table Builder. Due to the uncertainty in the figures, numbers have been rounded to the nearest ten.

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