This test service is a short-term deployment and not meant for any use other than testing.

A Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics data snapshot taken from http://www.sns.gov.uk is stored in BaseX 7.6. Datasets are accessible through RESTful URLs using the RESTXQ XQuery 3.0 annotations.

Examples of use are as follows:

• List the various date values used in the datasets http://labs.data.scotland.gov.uk/sns/data/dates
• List the indicator codes used in the datasets http://labs.data.scotland.gov.uk/sns/data/codes
• Get the data for indicator CS-PC_1yrto2yr: http://labs.data.scotland.gov.uk/sns/data/code/CS-PC_1yrto2yr
• Get the data for indicator HS-formersmk for the date period 2000-2002: http://labs.data.scotland.gov.uk/sns/data/code/HS-formersmk/date/2000-2002
• Get the data for indicator GR-sapemal3539 for the date period 2007 and for the area IG (Intermediate Geography):
  http://labs.data.scotland.gov.uk/sns/data/code/GR-sapemal3539/date/2007/area/IG

Metadata for each indicator is available using URLs like http://labs.data.scotland.gov.uk/sns/data/code/CS-PC_1yrto2yr

Note that the MIME type is not set to XML but to text. Using URLs like the ones shown above data can be imported directly into Excel, SAS, R and other analysis packages. Also, there is not yet any caching.