Scotland's people:Annual Report: Results from the 2003/2004 Scottish Household Survey

Table 7.15: Percentage finding services very or fairly convenient by local authority
Row percentage, 2003/2004 data, Adult population

	Convenience of Post Office	Convenience of Bank	Convenience of Doctors	Convenience of Grocery/food shop	Convenience of Chemists	Convenience of Outpatients	Convenience of Public Transport	Base
Aberdeen City	89	77	76	94	90	65	91	1,054
Aberdeenshire	93	75	88	95	88	52	58	1,101
Angus	92	80	84	95	90	59	70	561
Argyll and Bute	95	76	87	89	76	54	69	453
Clackmannanshire	92	72	84	95	91	43	67	513
Dumfries and Galloway	95	83	88	93	87	63	59	739
Dundee City	93	84	80	95	93	59	91	749
East Ayrshire	92	74	85	94	90	72	81	616
East Dunbartonshire	86	78	79	92	88	59	78	484
East Lothian	89	81	85	95	88	35	77	474
East Renfrewshire	93	85	84	93	96	34	91	546
Edinburgh City	89	77	84	94	92	35	88	2,264
Eilean Siar	94	79	85	94	64	73	74	516
Falkirk	93	83	89	93	91	68	78	741
Fife	88	75	79	91	89	59	76	1,909
Glasgow City	89	70	78	92	90	66	89	3,053
Highland	92	78	88	94	86	61	57	982
Inverclyde	83	70	76	89	84	54	89	513
Midlothian	91	82	86	93	92	49	77	517
Moray	96	85	85	96	91	70	83	560
North Ayrshire	88	69	80	93	91	55	84	677
North Lanarkshire	93	77	82	93	89	56	85	1,568
Orkney	92	75	89	95	78	66	60	619
Perth and Kinross	91	79	86	92	84	56	69	562
Renfrewshire	92	72	79	93	89	67	91	904
Scottish Borders	91	83	88	94	86	61	56	607
Shetland	87	52	70	93	51	49	56	593
South Ayrshire	93	80	83	94	92	69	81	575
South Lanarkshire	90	80	85	94	91	53	77	1,446
Stirling	94	75	81	89	82	66	66	531
West Dunbartonshire	88	76	81	91	89	52	88	446
West Lothian	91	67	86	95	89	71	82	788
Scotland	91	76	82	93	89	57	79	27,661

Table 7.16: Items recycled in the past month by household type
Column percentage, Q2,3,4 2003/All 2004 data
Households

	Single adult	Small adult	Single parent	Small family	Large family	Large adult	Older smaller	Single pensioner	All
Glass bottles	31	41	26	42	39	42	44	29	37
Plastic	13	18	13	19	19	21	19	12	17
Metal cans	14	19	13	20	19	21	20	14	18
Newspaper/magazine/paper/cardboard	37	51	36	51	50	56	61	51	50
One or more of these items	48	62	45	62	59	65	69	56	59
Base	4,391	4,517	1,551	3,751	1,774	2,596	4,118	4,428	27,126

Table 7.17 Items recycled in the past month by whether have access to a car and tenure
Column percentages, Q2,3,4 2003/All 2004 data, Households

Access to a car	Owned outright	Buying with help of loan/mortgage	Rent - Local Authority/ Scottish Homes	Rent - Housing Association/ Co-op	Rent - private landlord	Other	All
Glass bottles	54	45	27	27	43	47	45
Plastic	22	21	13	14	16	13	20
Metal cans	24	22	12	13	18	17	21
Newspaper/magazine/paper/cardboard	65	55	43	37	43	50	56
One or more of these items	75	66	52	46	58	65	66
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Base	5,914	8,782	1,727	620	932	309	18,284
No Access to a car
Glass bottles	27	26	16	15	28	23	21
Plastic	13	15	8	7	12	8	10
Metal cans	14	16	10	8	12	9	11
Newspaper/magazine/paper/cardboard	52	43	35	29	29	35	38
One or more of these items	58	51	40	33	41	44	44
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Base	1,903	1,141	3,524	1,271	781	222	8,842
All
Glass bottles	47	43	20	18	36	37	37
Plastic	20	20	10	9	14	11	17
Metal cans	21	21	10	9	15	14	18
Newspaper/magazine/paper/cardboard	62	54	38	31	37	43	50
One or more of these items	71	64	44	37	50	56	59
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Base	7,817	9,923	5,251	1,891	1,713	531	27,126

Table 7.18: Items recycled in the past month by urban/rural classification
Column percentage, Q2,3,4 2003/All 2004 data
Households

	Large urban areas	Other urban areas	Accessible small towns	Remote small towns	Accessible rural	Remote rural	Scotland
Glass bottles	31	36	43	41	49	52	37
Plastic	16	18	15	11	18	15	17
Metal cans	15	19	19	12	22	18	18
Newspaper/magazine/paper/cardboard	48	51	59	37	52	38	50
One or more of these items	55	59	67	54	65	62	59
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Base	9,862	7,621	2,889	1,233	3,280	2,238	27,123

Columns add to more than 100% since multiple responses allowed.

Table 7.19: Items recycled in the past month by Local Authority
Row percentage, Q2,3,4 2003/All 2004 data
Households

	Glass Bottles	Plastic	Metal cans	Newspaper/magazine/ paper/cardboard	One or more of these items	Base
Aberdeen City	40	21	19	59	65	1,071
Aberdeenshire	51	22	27	53	65	1,086
Angus	46	30	26	57	65	544
Argyll and Bute	43	21	19	52	61	496
Clackmannanshire	66	37	59	69	73	515
Dumfries and Galloway	38	7	12	33	52	708
Dundee City	20	4	6	56	60	764
East Ayrshire	34	10	20	36	45	613
East Dunbartonshire	45	23	18	76	79	488
East Lothian	47	8	18	72	77	489
East Renfrewshire	43	13	24	65	69	498
Edinburgh City	43	14	16	60	67	2,225
Eilean Siar	25	17	11	16	32	485
Falkirk	39	17	22	51	59	744
Fife	37	9	10	72	79	1,852
Glasgow City	24	24	18	38	44	2,862
Highland	47	8	13	25	55	1,032
Inverclyde	22	9	8	35	41	488
Midlothian	35	9	10	31	45	497
Moray	53	23	23	49	64	538
North Ayrshire	41	10	9	44	51	653
North Lanarkshire	28	11	15	51	58	1,555
Orkney	52	5	10	35	60	594
Perth and Kinross	48	15	16	75	81	585
Renfrewshire	24	6	6	25	36	891
Scottish Borders	57	8	15	59	71	588
Shetland	54	22	11	11	74	575
South Ayrshire	43	27	30	41	50	546
South Lanarkshire	29	22	22	37	46	1,380
Stirling	67	42	49	71	77	545
West Dunbartonshire	19	12	8	47	52	445
West Lothian	36	32	30	63	68	774
Scotland	37	17	18	50	59	27,126

Rows add to more than 100% since multiple responses allowed.

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