Introduction

This booklet summarises the Registrar General for Scotland's mid-2000 based population projections for the council and health board areas of Scotland. The projections have been controlled to the mid-2000 based national population projections for Scotland prepared by the Government Actuary's Department (GAD) in consultation with, and at the request of, the Registrar General. A reference volume about the projections for the four countries of the United Kingdom will be published later in 2002 (ONS Series PP2 no 23). This volume will contain details of the methodology and underlying assumptions used in producing the national projections.

Section 2 summarises the methodology used in the sub-national projections and describes the underlying fertility, mortality, and migration assumptions. A brief commentary on the results is given in Section 3. The projections are made in more detail than is given in this volume. Further information can be obtained from Statistics Customer Services - E-mail: [email protected].