Template:Scottish council populations/doc

This is a group of templates that provide an easy method to link to population statistics for Scottish districts. The templates are updated from time to time as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) releases new data, thus it should not be necessary to manually update the articles or their references. Districts are identified by passing a GSS code as a parameter. The Office for National Statistics began using the new GSS codes in preference to the old ONS codes in January 2011, and support for the old 4 character codes has been removed from this template.

The templates are:

• {{Scottish council populations}} – gives the population, rank or density for a district
• {{Scottish council control}} – gives current political control

The following also apply

• {{United Kingdom district population citation}} – gives a citation for the source of population data
• {{United Kingdom statistics year}} – gives the year to which the estimate applies (not the year it was generated)

Usage

Examples relate to Fife.

Population

• {{Scottish council populations|POP=S12000015}}

370,300

Rank

• {{Scottish council populations|RNK=S12000015}}

3rd

Density (population/km²)

• {{Scottish council populations|DEN=S12000015}}

279

Density ranking

• {{Scottish council populations|DRK=S12000015}}

14th

Area (km²)

• {{Scottish council populations|ARE=S12000015}}

1,325

Area ranking

• {{Scottish council populations|ARK=S12000015}}

13th

Electorate

• {{Scottish council populations|ELC=S12000015}}

280,180

Council control

• {{Scottish council control|GSS=S12000015}}

 

Citations

• {{United Kingdom district population citation|Scotland}}

"Population Estimates for UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, Mid-2016". Office for National Statistics. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

• {{United Kingdom district population citation|area}}

"Standard Area Measurements (2016) for Administrative Areas in the United Kingdom". Office for National Statistics. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.

• {{Scottish council populations|TXT=Electorate}}

"Electoral Statistics - Scotland 1st December 2016". National Records of Scotland. 1 December 2016. Table 3. Retrieved 2017-06-27.

Year

• {{United Kingdom statistics year}}

mid-2016 est.

• {{United Kingdom statistics year|ScotlandYYYY}}

2016

Note

When updating the figures in the population template, check that the table in List of Scottish council areas by population and List of Scottish council areas by population density are still correctly ordered.