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Background
This is the fourth edition of 'Rural Scotland Key Facts' - a publication intended to be an easily accessible reference for statistics on rural Scotland. This 2007 version updates statistics from the 3rd edition where new statistics have become available. Some new items have also been introduced.
For hard copies of this publication, or for further information on any of the tables/figures presented, please contact the Rural and Environment Analytical Services Division of the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate. Telephone 0131 244 6143.
Sources
For tables/charts sourced from the Scottish Household Survey, the unweighted base numbers for households population are 2,784 for remote rural, 3,490 for accessible rural, and 24,737 for the rest of Scotland. There are occasional variations in base sizes for individual tables/figures. Further detail on the base numbers are available in 'Scotland's People: Results from 2005/2006 Scottish Household Survey'. The sample sizes are smallest for remote rural areas suggesting that there is less precision in the statistics for this area than for the rest of Scotland figures.
Statistics sourced from Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics (including the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation) are based on data zones - the small area statistical geography in Scotland. Further information on Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics is available from www.sns.gov.uk
For tables/charts sourced from the Scottish House Condition Survey, the unweighted base sample numbers for dwellings are 298 for remote rural, 369 for accessible rural, and 2,426 for the rest of Scotland. There are occasional variations in base sample sizes for individual tables/figures. Further detail are available in 'Scottish House Condition Survey: Key Findings for 2004/5'.
For tables/charts sourced from the Inter Departmental Business Register, these figures include all businesses with at least one employees paid under PAYE or with a turnover above £60,000 (these account for about 95% of employment in Scotland). Figures from IDBR relate to 2006; new data become available in December 2007.
Scottish Executive Urban Rural Classification
Further information on The Scottish Executive Urban Rural Classification 2005-2006 is available on the Scottish Government website: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/07/31114822/0.
The Scottish Executive Urban Rural Classification 2005-2006 updates the 2003-2004 version with the latest available population settlement and drive time estimates. The definitions of urban and rural areas underlying the classification are unchanged. Two main criteria have been used to produce the Scottish Executive urban rural classification: settlement size as defined by the General Register Office for Scotland ( GROS) and accessibility based on drive time analysis to differentiate between accessible and remote areas in Scotland. The changes between the 2003-2004 and the 2005-2006 classifications stem from settlements whose population fluctuates around the 10,000 and 3,000 marks as these are the population thresholds used to distinguish between urban and rural areas. Further information on this is available from the above publication.
Further information on the Scottish Executive urban rural classification 2003/04 is available on the Scottish Government website: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/rural/seurc-00.asp
With the exception of data sourced from Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics, all data used have been assigned a Scottish Executive urban rural classification based on unit postcodes. For statistics based on Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics, data zones are classified into the Scottish Executive urban rural classification using 'best fit' methods. Further information on this is available from the publication on 2005-2006 urban rural classification.
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