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

Table 7.20: Reasons for not recycling by urban/rural classification
Column percentages, Q2,3,4 2003/All 2004 data
Households who do not recycle

	Large urban areas	Other urban areas	Accessible small towns	Remote small towns	Accessible rural	Remote rural	Scotland
No facilities available	54	30	24	12	34	27	39
Dont know/never thought about it	13	22	21	32	16	22	17
Facilities too far away	14	14	14	15	22	22	15
Too much mess/bother	8	10	12	12	11	7	9
Do not use enough/not enough to be worth it	5	8	10	12	9	9	7
Don't know where facilities are	9	5	5	3	5	5	7
Cannot transport materials to recycling depot	7	7	6	8	5	5	7
Nowhere to store at home	5	6	8	4	5	2	5
Not interested/waste of time	5	6	6	8	5	5	5
Should be collected	1	3	3	0	2	1	2
Normally do - not taken it this month	1	1	1	2	2	1	1
Housebound/unable to go out	0	1	1	1	0	0	1
Re-use materials	0	1	1	0	1	-	1
Don't have time	0	1	1	0	0	1	1
Other	3	7	7	9	7	6	5
Bases	4,413	3,097	945	570	1,132	882	11,039

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

Table 7.21: Reasons for not recycling by local authority
Column percentages, Q2,3,4 2003/2004 data, Households

	No facilities available	Dont know/ never thought about it	Facilities too far away	Too much mess/ bother	Do not use enough /not enough to be worth it	Don't know where facilities are	Cannot transport materials to depot	Nowhere to store at home	Not interested/ waste of time	Should be collected	Normally do - not taken it this month	Housebound/ unable to go out	Re-use materials	Don't have time	Other	Base
Aberdeen City	16	19	18	12	8	11	12	4	3	4	2	0	0	1	5	374
Aberdeenshire	10	25	17	15	10	5	6	5	6	2	1	1	3	1	9	382
Angus	32	12	20	13	15	6	5	7	9	1	2	-	-	1	4	192
Argyll and Bute	32	29	15	7	8	5	4	6	4	1	2	0	-	-	16	195
Clackmannanshire	38	10	5	12	10	2	5	4	5	7	5	3	1	1	9	135
Dumfries and Galloway	25	22	29	7	9	3	5	6	3	2	1	1	1	1	6	343
Dundee City	41	5	15	8	11	4	7	10	15	1	0	1	-	-	1	308
East Ayrshire	18	29	14	11	5	2	10	7	3	4	2	1	1	1	9	334
East Dunbartonshire	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	99
East Lothian	32	24	11	14	5	4	1	9	6	3	1	-	-	2	5	111
East Renfrewshire	47	18	15	6	3	9	3	4	4	2	3	1	-	1	3	148
Edinburgh City	42	14	13	12	7	6	10	6	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	736
Eilean Siar	12	40	13	4	2	4	17	2	5	-	2	-	0	-	1	342
Falkirk	16	32	7	12	12	7	5	10	4	7	2	-	1	2	9	304
Fife	34	11	14	9	12	8	6	11	12	6	1	2	1	1	17	386
Glasgow City	69	12	14	5	3	13	5	4	4	0	1	1	0	0	3	1596
Highland	17	17	28	10	14	5	6	2	8	1	1	0	-	-	6	465
Inverclyde	59	15	20	3	3	6	4	3	2	0	1	0	-	1	1	291
Midlothian	36	30	12	9	3	2	1	3	5	-	1	-	-	1	3	275
Moray	4	23	25	10	14	4	6	6	9	2	2	1	1	2	4	195
North Ayrshire	22	27	15	6	5	7	15	6	6	1	2	1	1	1	3	313
North Lanarkshire	58	10	10	13	6	5	3	5	5	3	0	0	-	0	3	646
Orkney	14	3	15	40	5	2	3	7	11	-	5	0	-	-	0	237
Perth and Kinross	32	24	17	5	12	1	5	3	8	1	2	4	1	-	4	113
Renfrewshire	49	11	15	8	9	5	7	4	5	0	-	0	0	0	1	575
Scottish Borders	15	19	13	18	13	5	9	7	10	-	1	-	1	2	2	173
Shetland	2	18	4	12	39	5	5	2	6	-	13	-	-	1	2	153
South Ayrshire	22	25	14	11	6	2	11	8	4	0	1	2	4	1	9	285
South Lanarkshire	49	16	12	10	5	6	6	5	5	2	1	1	1	1	6	749
Stirling	28	21	10	7	14	6	12	9	10	5	1	-	2	-	18	127
West Dunbartonshire	35	30	11	7	5	5	7	5	2	1	1	0	1	-	8	211
West Lothian	32	17	14	10	12	8	2	8	5	4	1	0	1	1	9	249
Scotland	39	17	15	9	7	7	7	5	5	2	1	1	1	1	5	*11,042*

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

Table 7.22: Religious affiliation by age
Column percentages, 2003/2004 data
Adult population

	16 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 59	60 to 74	75 plus	All
None	43	47	39	28	18	13	31
Church of Scotland	32	27	35	47	57	63	44
Roman Catholic	16	15	16	15	15	13	15
Other Christian	6	8	8	8	9	9	8
Buddhist	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hindu	0	0	0	0	0	-	0
Muslim	2	2	1	0	0	0	1
Jewish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sikh	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Another religion	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Base	2,316	4,208	5,393	6,775	6,387	3,667	28,746

Table 7.23: Religious affiliation by sex
Column percentage, 2003/2004 data
Adult population

	Male	Female	All
None	34	29	31
Church of Scotland	43	45	44
Roman Catholic	14	16	15
Other Christian	8	8	8
Buddhist	0	0	0
Hindu	0	0	0
Muslim	1	1	1
Jewish	0	0	0
Sikh	0	0	0
Another religion	1	1	1
Total	100	100	100
Base	12,242	16,504	28,746

Table 7.24: Religion brought up in by age among adults with no current religious denomination
Column percentages, 2003/2004 data
Adult population with no religious denomination

	16 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 59	60 to 74	75 plus	All
None	78	65	55	44	37	39	55
Church of Scotland	14	20	26	36	41	40	28
Roman Catholic	4	8	10	9	8	7	8
Other Christian	3	7	8	11	13	13	8
Buddhist	-	-	0	-	-	-	0
Hindu	0	-	0	-	-	-	0
Muslim	-	0	0	-	-	-	0
Jewish	-	0	0	0	0	-	0
Sikh	-	-	0	-	-	-	0
Another religion	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Base	1,101	2,038	2,145	2,019	1,197	460	8,960

Table 7.25: Religion of spouse by religion of highest income householder
Column percentage, 2003/2004 data
Highest income householders

	None	Church of Scotland	Roman Catholic	Other Christian	Buddhist	Hindu	Muslim	Jewish	Sikh	Another religion	All
None	81	10	18	14	*	*	6	*	*	18	32
Church of Scotland	9	81	22	18	*	*	1	*	*	11	44
Roman Catholic	7	6	56	7	*	*	1	*	*	4	14
Other Christian	2	3	4	62	*	*	1	*	*	2	8
Buddhist	0	-	0	0	*	*	-	*	*	1	0
Hindu	0	-	-	-	*	*	-	*	*	-	0
Muslim	0	0	0	0	*	*	91	*	*	-	1
Jewish	0	0	0	-	*	*	-	*	*	-	0
Sikh	-	-	0	0	*	*	-	*	*	-	0
Another religion	0	0	0	0	*	*	-	*	*	64	1
Total	100	100	100	100	*	*	100	*	*	100	100
Base	4,910	7,809	2,423	1,528	27	20	131	19	11	121	16,999

*Percentages not shown as sample size is less than 100.

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