Description: This feature class contains Scotland's 6,505 Data Zones (DATA_ZONE), population from Census 2001 (CEN2001POP), rankings of the Data Zones in terms of deprivation (SIMD_RANK), the name of the Intermediate Geography the Data Zone falls within (INGEOGNAME) and the local authority codes (LA_CODE). Please see SIMD2004_Rank LUT table in the PGDB for the ranks and corresponding percentage. Please see LA_Code_LUT table in the PGDB for the codes and corresponding local authority names.
Description: Boundaries of postcode units as supplied by National Records for Scotland.
Unit postcodes are the base unit of postal geography and fall into two types:
Large user postcodes: allocated to single addresses receiving at least 1,000 mail items per day (eg business addresses)
Small user postcodes: collections of (usually) adjacent addresses. A single small user postcode may contain up to 100 addresses, but 15 is a more typical number
Note: It is possible for large buildings with many separate delivery points (for example, a tower block) to have more than one unit postcode within the building.