The quantitative data stems from two sources: administrative data from the Scottish Charity Register; and a self-completion questionnaire of 420 charities conducted during summer 2015. Data underpinning the empirical work conducted during an ESRC-funded PhD scholarship - Risk and Resilience in Scottish Charities; the data sets correspond to chapters 4 - 7 in the thesis of the same name. Please see the accompanying documentation for detailed descriptions of the data collection, cleaning and preparation work. Consult the thesis or accompanying journal articles to see how the data sets were analysed.Doctoral Training Partnerships: a range of postgraduate training is funded by the Research Councils. For information on current funding routes, see the common terminology at www.rcuk.ac.uk/StudentshipTerminology. Training grants may be to one organisation or to a consortia of research organisations. This portal will show the lead organisation only.

The quantitative data stems from two sources: administrative data from the Scottish Charity Register; and a self-completion questionnaire of 420 charities conducted during summer 2015. The survey sample was restricted to those individuals that receive OSCR’s monthly newsletter (OSCR Reporter). At the time the survey was first sent by email by OSCR’s Communications team (09/06/2015), this included 6,355 individuals. However some of these recipients neither worked with or for Scottish charities (e.g. accountants and journalists), therefore the sample was further restricted to individuals listed as charity trustees (2,414), paid charity workers (1,074) and volunteers (612). This resulted in a final sample of 4,100 individual subscribers to the newsletter. The final number of responses stood at 420, a response rate of 10.2 percent of the newsletter subscribers; this accounts for roughly 1.8 percent of the population of Scottish charities at the time.