Question reference: S5W-34303
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 23 December 2020
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Current status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 11 January 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-33545 by Clare Haughey on 7 December 2020, by what date it expects the data to be (a) finalised, (b) validated and (c) peer-reviewed.
Answer
A study by the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory is underway to investigate death rates from COVID-19 for the population with learning disabilities in Scotland compared with a 5% sample of the general population. This study will provide robust evidence on the rate of deaths from COVID-19 in the learning disabilities population compared with the general population.
Data from Scotland’s Census 2011 was linked to death registrations and other health data by Public Health Scotland and recently made available to researchers in the Observatory via the National Safe Haven.
The first stage of analysis has been completed and submitted to eDRIS for statistical disclosure. Data will be compiled into a final report which will be available to Scottish Government as a preprint before the end of January 2021, subject to release of data from the NHS Safe Haven.