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Scotland's People
Results from the 2003 Scottish Household Survey Annual Report

Footnotes

1. This report provides results only from the SHS. Additional information on many topic areas is available from the various statistics branches of the Scottish Executive and contact details are provided on page 157. Previous Annual and Technical Reports are available at www.scotland.gov.uk/shs.
2. Adults who are household members but have been living away for the previous six months are excluded from the selection of the random adult. Children and students living away during term time are counted as household members but are excluded from the random adult and random school child selection.
3. Where the same person completes both Parts 1 and 2 (i.e. they are both the household respondent and selected as the random adult) the CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing) script does not repeat the questions common to both sections. This means that these respondents are not asked for the same information twice.
4. These are mainly addresses without any private dwellings (such as businesses) and vacant or derelict addresses.
5. In households where there is only one adult, that person has 100% chance of selection for Part 2, but where there is more than one adult, the probability of a particular person being selected is less. This has been taken into account in the weighting.
6. Scottish Household Survey, Methodology 2003/2004.
7. Scottish Household Survey, Fieldwork outcomes 2003.
8. Scottish Household Survey, Questionnaire April 2003 to December 2004.
9. Significance is tested by calculating Z-scores for the difference between the two proportions being compared. In the calculation, the standard error of the proportions is multiplied by a factor of 1.2 to account for the fact that some of the sample is clustered rather than a simple random sample.
10. The Glossary provides details of how household income is derived.
11. For further details, please refer to Scottish Household Survey, Methodology 2003/2004
12. More information is required to ascribe a NS-SEC code than a SIC code (e.g. job title, whether have a supervisory role, number of people supervised etc, in addition to industry worked in). Thus a higher number of respondents have are missing a NS-SEC code than are missing a SIC code.

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