Scottish Student Loan Repayments by Cohort for Financial Year 2008-09

Scottish Government data provides provisional statistics on income-contingent student loan repayments for the 2008-09 financial year. The annex shows how students are repaying their loans and the average amount outstanding for each repayment cohort. It is designated as Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Modeling student loan repayment trajectories based on cohort analysis mentioned in the description
• Analyzing the performance of income-contingent loan schemes based on repayment data
• Comparing average outstanding loan amounts across different student cohorts

Strengths

• Data originates from the Scottish Government, an official source.
• Focuses on a specific financial year (2008-09) and geography (Scotland).
• Includes analysis by repayment cohort, a key feature for longitudinal study.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Scottish Government

Collection Method

Likely administrative data from the Student Loans Company.

Time Range

Financial Year 2008-09 (Provisional)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:49.687429; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Scotland