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11. Definitions

Household type

The SHS uses eight household types defined as follows:

A single adult household contains one adult of non-pensionable age and no children

A single parent household contains one adult of any age and one or more children

A single pensioner household contains one adult of pensionable age and no children. Pensionable age is 60 for women and 65 for men

A small family household contains two adults of any age and one or two children

An older smaller household contains one adult of non-pensionable age and one of pensionable age and no children, or two adults of pensionable age and no children

A large adult household contains three or more adults and no children

A small adult household contains two adults of non-pensionable age and no children

A large family household contains two adults of any age and three or more children, or three or more adults of any age and one or more children

Urban/rural classification

The Scottish Government six-fold urban/rural classification of Scotland has been adopted. This classification is based on settlement size and remoteness (measured by drive times) allowing more detailed geographical analysis to be conducted on a larger sample size. The classification being used in this report is the 2006 version.

The areas in which respondents live have been classified as follows:

Large urban areas - settlements of over 125,000 people

Other urban areas - settlements of 10,000 to 125,000 people

Accessible small towns - settlements of between 3,000 and 10,000 people and within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10,000 or more

Remote small towns - settlements of between 3,000 and 10,000 people and with a drive time of over 30 minutes to a settlement of 10,000 or more

Accessible rural - settlements of less than 3,000 people and within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10,000 or more

Remote rural - settlements of less than 3,000 people with a drive time of more than 30 minutes to a settlement of 10,000 or more

Isolated houses and hamlets are included in settlements of fewer than 3,000 people

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation

The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation ( SIMD) 2006 identifies the most deprived areas across Scotland. It is based on 31 indicators in the six individual domains of Current Income, Employment, Housing, Health, Education, Skills and Training and Geographic Access to Services and Telecommunications.

SIMD is presented at data zone level, enabling small pockets of deprivation to be identified. The data zones are ranked from most deprived (1) to least deprived (6,505) on the overall SIMD and on each of the individual domains. The result is a comprehensive picture of relative area deprivation across Scotland. In the tables in this report, the data zones are grouped into quintiles, from the most deprived 20% (1) to the least deprived 20% (5).

Tenure

Housing tenure is broken down into six categories, namely:

Owned outright - Households who own their property outright

Buying with the help of loan/mortgage - Household buying their property with a mortgage or loan (including paying part mortgage and part rent under a shared ownership arrangement)

Rent - Local Authority/Scottish Homes - Households renting from a local authority or Scottish Homes/successor organisations

Rent - Housing Association Co-op - Households renting from a Housing Association or Co-operative

Rent - private landlord - Households renting from a private landlord or from a friend or relative of a household member

Other - Others including those living rent free or renting from an employer

A note on base sizes

Following the convention used in previous SHS Headline and Annual reports tables and figures in this report are based on all cases for which information is available. This means that missing cases are excluded from the base on which the percentages shown are calculated. This will occasionally lead to slight variations in total columns. For example in table 7.2 the base and percentages for 'Scotland' (the combined total of all the individual urban/rural areas) vary from those in table 7.3 for 'All' (the combined total of all the incomes).

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Correspondence and enquiries

Enquiries on the Scottish Household Survey should be addressed to:

Telephone: (0131) 244 8420;
Fax: (0131) 244 7573
e-mail: shs@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

General enquiries on Scottish Government statistics can be addressed to:

Telephone: (0131) 244 0442;
Fax: (0131) 244 2223
e-mail: statistics.enquiries@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

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