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APPENDIX D: METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINING THE CLUSTERS FOR ANALYSIS
1 The Scottish Executive produces annual 6-fold and 8-fold urban rural classifications.
2 The Scottish Executive Urban Rural 8-Fold Classification 2005-2006 18 comprises the following categories:
- Large Urban Areas ( LUA);
- Other Urban Areas ( OUA);
- Accessible Small Towns ( AST);
- Remote Small Towns ( RST);
- Very Remote Small Towns ( VRST);
- Accessible Rural ( AR);
- Remote Rural ( RR);
- Very Remote Rural ( VRR).
3 The classification shows the percentages of the population classed as living in these areas. Classifications are available for Local authorities, Health Boards and Parliamentary Constituencies.
4 Table D.1 (overleaf) shows the 8-fold classification for Local authorities, grouped into seven categories for this review. The grouping is inevitably arbitrary, but is intended to capture geographical and population density aspects and also to provide clusters with similar numbers of Local authorities. These groupings are used in the analysis of the EAC database to show if there are differences across different geographical areas of Scotland and between urban and rural areas.
5 Scotland has been divided into three geographical areas - northern, central and southern.
6 Four categories have been determined to capture the extent of urbanisation and rurality, based on the following definitions.
- Very Urban: LUA > 60%
- Mainly Urban: LUA < 60% and LUA+ OUA > 50%
- Mainly Rural: AST+ RST+ VRST+ AR+ RR+ VRR > 50% and VRST+ VRR < 100%
- Very Remote: VRST+ VRR = 100%
Table D.1: Composition of clusters used in analysis
| LUA | OUA | LUA+ OUA | AST+ RST+ AR+ RR | VRST+ VRR | AST+ RST+ VRST+ AR+ RR+ VRR |
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NORTHERN SCOTLAND: Very Urban and Mainly Urban |
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Aberdeen City | 93 | 0 | 93 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
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Angus | 8 | 54 | 62 | 38 | 0 | 38 |
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Dundee City | 100 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Stirling | 0 | 53 | 53 | 46 | 1 | 47 |
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NORTHERN SCOTLAND: Mainly Rural |
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Aberdeenshire | 0 | 27 | 27 | 72 | 1 | 73 |
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Argyll & Bute | 0 | 18 | 18 | 26 | 56 | 82 |
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Highland | 0 | 21 | 21 | 37 | 42 | 79 |
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Moray | 0 | 24 | 24 | 75 | 1 | 76 |
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Perth & Kinross | 1 | 32 | 34 | 64 | 2 | 66 |
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NORTHERN SCOTLAND: Very Remote |
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Eilean Siar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 100 |
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Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 100 |
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Shetland Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 100 |
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CENTRAL SCOTLAND: Very Urban |
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East Renfrewshire | 86 | 0 | 86 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
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Edinburgh, City of | 96 | 0 | 96 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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Glasgow City | 100 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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North Lanarkshire | 65 | 16 | 82 | 18 | 0 | 18 |
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Renfrewshire | 75 | 10 | 85 | 15 | 0 | 15 |
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CENTRAL SCOTLAND: Mainly Urban |
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Clackmannanshire | 0 | 54 | 54 | 46 | 0 | 46 |
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East Dunbartonshire | 59 | 27 | 86 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
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Falkirk | 0 | 86 | 86 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
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Fife | 0 | 66 | 66 | 34 | 0 | 34 |
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Inverclyde | 0 | 88 | 88 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
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West Dunbartonshire | 50 | 49 | 99 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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West Lothian | 0 | 71 | 71 | 29 | 0 | 29 |
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SOUTHERN SCOTLAND: Mainly Urban |
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Midlothian | 0 | 66 | 66 | 34 | 0 | 34 |
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North Ayrshire | 0 | 71 | 71 | 25 | 4 | 29 |
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South Ayrshire | 0 | 68 | 68 | 32 | 0 | 32 |
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South Lanarkshire | 22 | 56 | 80 | 20 | 0 | 20 |
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SOUTHERN SCOTLAND: Mainly Rural |
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Dumfries & Galloway | 0 | 28 | 28 | 72 | 0 | 72 |
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East Ayrshire | 0 | 37 | 37 | 63 | 0 | 63 |
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East Lothian | 25 | 0 | 25 | 75 | 0 | 75 |
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Scottish Borders | 0 | 27 | 27 | 73 | 0 | 73 |
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Notes to table
*Some totals appear incorrect due to rounding to the nearest percent.
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