Injuries: key data sources

Injury-related statistics are available from a wide range of sources including population surveys, health care and mortality datasets, and routine administrative sources. Although the term 'injury' is preferred to that of 'accidents', a number of data sources still refer to 'accidents'.

Deaths data sources

• National Records of Scotland (NRS)
• Eurostat - accidents and injuries statistics in the EU

Health data sources

• Scottish Morbidity Record SMR01 (see also SMR01 data items)
• European Injury Database (IDB)
• European Health for All (HfA) Database explorer
• Scottish Burden of Disease study
• Eurostat - Accidents at work

Survey data sources

• Scottish Health Survey
• Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 2013
• Labour Force Survey

Police recorded data sources

• Stats19 Road Accident Form 

Indicator / profiles tools

• ScotPHO profiles tool 

ScotPHO profiles indicators relevant to injuries:

Children and young people profile:

• Unintentional injuries in under 5s: emergency hospital admissions for unintentional injury in children under 5; 3-year rolling average number and directly age-sex standardised rate per 100,000.

Health and wellbeing profile:

• Road traffic accident casualties: patients discharged from hospital after an emergency admission or died as a result of a road traffic accident; 3-year rolling average number and directly age-sex standardised rate per 100,000.