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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 p.156.
2. Previous Annual and Technical Reports are available at www.scotland.gov.uk/shs.
3. 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.
4. Where the same person completes both parts one and two (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.
5. These are mainly addresses without any private dwellings (such as businesses) and vacant or derelict addresses.
6. In households where there is only one adult, that person has 100% chance of selection for part two 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.
7. Scottish Household Survey: Methodology 2003/2004. Scottish Household Survey: Fieldwork Outcomes 2003. Scottish Household Survey: Fieldwork Outcomes 2003/2004. Scottish Household Survey: Questionnaire 2003/2004.
8. 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.
9. See Glossary for definitions.
10. Complete stock transfer took place in Glasgow and Dumfries and Galloway in 2003. SHS respondents living in transferred stock may be misreporting their tenure as rented from their Local Authority rather than a Housing Association.
11. The glossary provides details of how household income is derived.
12. For further details, please refer to Scottish Household Survey: Methodology 2003/2004
13. More information on Household income can be found in Raab, J., MacDonald, C., and Macintyre, C. (2004) Comparision of Income Data between Surveys of Scottish Households: Research report for Communities Scotland. Copies are available on the SHS web-pages or from the SHS team.
14. For further details, please see question RG5 in Scottish Household Survey: Questionnaire 2003/2004.
15. With stock transfer taking place during 2003/2004, from Local Authority to Housing Associations, it is apparent that some respondents are misreporting their tenure as rented from their Local Authority rather than from a Housing Association.
16. Household classification variables with less than 30,822 cases have a number of cases with missing information.
17. For details, please refer to Section 4 of Scottish Household Survey: Fieldwork Outcomes 2003/2004

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