Data to accompany Brown, D. , Allik, M. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. H. (2014) Carstairs Scores for Scottish Postcode Sectors, Datazones and Output Areas from the 2011 Census. Technical Report. A description of the data in the postcode sector (carstairs_scores_ps2011.csv), datazone (carstairs_scores_dz2011.csv) and output area (carstairs_scores_oa2011.csv) files are given in the Report Appendix (Table A2). A technical note (.pdf), referred to in the Report, compares postcode sectors over time. Two new data files were created following publication of the Report – Data for the datazone file carstairs_scores_dz2011.csv are based on (2001) datazones best-fit from 2011 census output areas. A new file was added (carstairs_scores_new2001dz.csv) based on 2011 datazones (which are an exact-fit for 2011 census output areas). A new file was added (carstairs_scores_2011CATT.csv) based on 2011 Consistent Areas Through Time (CATTs). See Exeter et al. 2019. The geographic harmonisation of Scotland's small area census data, 1981 to 2011, Health & place 57, 22-26 and https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/geography/our-products/census-datasets/consistent-areas-through-time-catts. The folder ‘2001’ contains the Carstairs report for 2001 (Carstairs_report_2001.pdf - McLoone, 2004), an executive summary of the report (Carstairs_executive_summary_2001.pdf) and Carstairs scores data file (Carstairs_scores_2011.csv). A description of the data file is given within the report. The folder ‘1981-1991’ contains the Carstairs report for 1991 (Carstairs_report_1991.pdf - McLoone, 1994 (republished 2000)), a guide to how scores were coded and formatted (FORMATS & CODES.DOC) and associated data files (APPEND2.csv, APPEND5.csv, SUPP1.csv, SUPP2.csv). Note that these files also contain Carstairs scores for 1981.