Vital Events are births, marriages, still-births, deaths, divorces and adoptions.
Data on vital events in Scotland are collected every week from registrars, courts, procurators fiscal and others and after processing are available for use by customers. Vital Events data are used by researcher seeking either specific or tabulated data about the Scottish population. Each event type has a wide range of data available and depending on your data requirements which may necessitate clearance through the Registrar General's Medical Ethics Committee we are able to provide data about individual cases. However, we are able to provide data on disk in other computer formats as well as on DAT tape. For smaller jobs many customers receive copies of death notifications on paper.