SCOTTISH HOUSEHOLD SURVEY NEWS
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August 2007
2007 User Day
The 2007 SHS User Day will take place in Victoria Quay on Monday 26th November. The agenda has yet to be finalised, but it will be used to launch the consultation for changes to the SHS questionnaire for the next two-year sweep, beginning in January 2009. Talks will cover progress on the harmonisation of large-scale Scottish Executive surveys, as well as uses of the data. You can reserve a place by e-mailing SHS@scotland.gsi.gov.uk. More details will be provided in September.
SHS Annual and Technical Reports
The 2005/2006 Annual Report was published on 2 August: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16002/14048. Hardcopies of the Annual Report and the Methodology and Fieldwork Outcomes parts of the Technical Report are available on request from the SHS team. For those who have hardcopies of the Annual Report, please note the minor amendments to tables 6.32, 7.7 and 7.8. For users of SPSS, the syntax used to create the report is also available on the SHS website: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16002/14484.
SHS Lite
The SHS Lite dataset for 2005/2006 is now available on request from the SHS team. The full data, including the travel diary, will be made available in the usual way from the UK Data Archive.
Latest Quarterly Trends
The latest trend data for a selection of social justice, transport and housing topics will be published on Thursday 30 August. These will be available from the quarterly publications page: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16002/14050. These represent the first release of data from quarter 1 of 2007.
Local Authority Results
A selection of local authority analysis for 2005/2006 will be published during September on the SHS website using the table search facility. This can be accessed at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16002/shs-search.
New Project Manager
From 10 September, Mairi MacAskill will be taking over as SHS project manager. All correspondence should continue to go through the SHS mailbox.
March 2007
2007 User Day
The date has been confirmed as Monday 26th November 2007. Please note it in your diaries. Booking is not yet open but you will be notified through this e-mail list and the website when you can book a place. We are combining with The Scottish House Condition Survey ( http://www.shcs.gov.uk/) team and the next user day will have presentations which will be of interest to both SHS and SHCS users.
Latest data available from Data Archive
The 2005 data and travel diary have been placed in the Data Archive and will be released around the 16th April. If you cannot wait till then - then please contact the Data Archive Helpdesk: http://www.esds.ac.uk/support/helpdesk.asp. I am sorry these are much later than normal and we hope to place the 2005/2006 data in the Archive much earlier this year.
Latest Quarterly Results
Key trends for a selection of social justice, transport and housing topics were published on 28 February 2007. This is based on data from the third quarter of 2006. It is available from our publications page ( http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16002/14050 ) or from this Data Trends link.
New publications
There are a number of new publications drawing on SHS data which I'd like to draw your attention to:
All Our Futures: Planning for a Scotland with an Ageing Population: 3 The Evidence Base 2007
Digital Inclusion Strategy 2006
Bus and Coach Statistics (published19th March)
Short Car Driver Journeys
Short Car Driver Journeys is the latest in our series of articles for the "Scottish Transport Review". This link is to the Web site which has copies of most of the editions of the "STR": http://www.stsg.org/publications.html .
All of these are available from our publications page on the website.
We also plan to have a new publication which will summarise the 2005/6 results. This short publication will give a flavour of the 2005/6 results in advance of the full 2005/2006 annual report in August 2007. The planned publication date is 6th June. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for the content of this new publication by 1 May 2007.
SHS Technical Group meeting minutes
For any of you interested - we have now put all the 2006 SHS Technical Group minutes on our website. The Technical Group is the group that steers the survey and makes all key decisions.
More SPSS Syntax
For those of you who are SPSS users, please note we have now released the SPSS syntax used to construct the tables in the 2005 annual report as well as the syntax for the 2003/4 annual report which was already on the site. The 2005 annual report contains a substantial amount of new tables.
More web tables
In response to a request, we will be publishing tables on our website on available indicators by deprived / non deprived areas (i.e. bottom 15% vs non 15%) based on 2005/2006 data. We hope this will provide a wealth of data to Community Planning Partnerships and other bodies about progress being made in our deprived communities.
January 2007
New version of the questionnaire
A new version of the questionnaire is being introduced and a further e-mail will be sent, in due course, when information about the new questions is available on the website.
Latest Quarterly Results
Key trends for a selection of social justice, transport and housing topics were published on 1st December 2006. This is based on data from the second quarter of 2006. It is available from our publications page ( http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16002/14050 ) or from this Data Trends link.
SPSS Syntax
For those of you who are SPSS users, please note we have now released the SPSS syntax used to construct the tables on our website. This is available from our "How to get results" page ( http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16002/14484). This is in addition to the Annual Report syntax which is already released. Please let me know if anyone has any problems downloading or using this SPSS syntax file.
New SHS Publications
We would like to advise you of a new publication using SHS data. It is written by Tim Ryley who was one of the first users of SHS data, using 1999/2000 data for the Edinburgh area. The final output from this research was published late last year, in the academic journal 'Journal of Transport Geography'. The article is titled "Use of non-motorised modes and life stage in Edinburgh". The full reference is on our " Other Publications" page on our website.
If you have published any research which used SHS data, please tell us about it so we can share it with other SHS users.
Household Transport in 2005
The latest edition of this annual Transport Statistics bulletin, which presents some of the SHS's Transport-related results, was published on 27th October. As well as some topics which have been in the survey for several years (e.g. car availability, possession of driving licences, frequency of driving, walking and cycling, and travel to work and travel to school), this 80-page bulletin analyses the first year's results from a range of new questions which were added to the survey at the start of 2005 (e.g. views on motoring taxes and charges, traffic growth and congestion; use of motorbikes; awareness and use of Traveline Scotland; and use of concessionary fare passes). An electronic version is available via http://www.scotland.gov.uk/transtat/latest . Printed copies may be purchased (for 2 pounds) from Scottish Executive Publication Sales, Blackwell's Bookshop (tel: 0131 622 8283 or 8258; FAX 0131 557 8149).
Some of the SHS's Transport-related results also appear in "Main Transport Trends" and "Scottish Transport Statistics".
Changes to the Management
The SHCS (Scottish House Condition Survey) and the SHS management staff have been amalgamated within the Housing and Area Regeneration ASD in the Development Department of the Scottish Executive. We hope to front some joint initiatives on dissemination and promote more use of both data sets in the future. We plan that our next SHS user day will be a joint venture - with SHCS users present too. This event should take place in Autumn 2007. If you use both surveys and are willing to speak about your experiences - please get in touch with the SHS team.
December 2006
New Quarterly Publication
Key trends from quarter 2 (2006) SHS data are now available from our website.
August 2006
Scotland's People: SHS 2005 Annual and Technical Reports & 2006 Questionnaire Published 3rd August 2006
The 2005 SHS annual report was published today along with the technical reports and the 2006 (current) questionnaire This will provide data at the Scotland level and by groupings of Local Authorities.
Visit our annual publications page to access the reports
What's new ?
This year there are a number of new tables based on new questions which started in 2005. This includes:
-data on use of credit and use of credit for borrowing
-satisfaction with local agency response to incidents of ASB
-data on levels of satisfaction with local council services
-data on self-perception of general health
For the first time, we have also added in key analysis by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD).
The 2005 main dataset will be available for analysis from the UK Data Archive from October of this year.
Please let us know if you would like hard copies of the 2005 SHS annual report and technical annexes to be sent to you.
Looking for SHS data for your council?
The latest data available for all 32 local authorities is 2003/2004 data which was published last year. Please visit our webtables facility where you will find access to ready made tables for each Local Authority.
The next available Local Authority data will be published in August 2007 (2005/2006 data).
OTHER SHS NEWS
ANNUAL SHS USER DAY 2006
The annual SHS user day was held on 7th March 2006 and brought together a number of people who use SHS data to inform research and policy. Further details and outputs from this event including presentations can be found on the events page of the SHS website.
SHS QUESTIONNAIRE CONSULTATION
Developments after the consultation for the new content of the SHS questionnaire from 2007 is well underway. Piloting of any new questions will start in the Autumn of this year.
For a list of changes that were made to the 2005 questionnaire click here.
For an up-to-date topic list of the current 2006 questionnaire click here.
OTHER SHS PUBLICATIONS
Policy Focused Analysis
Two analytical topic reports have recently been published: Childcare and Long-distance Commuting. These provide in-depth analysis on these topic areas.
Please contact us if you like a hard copy of the Long-Distance Commuting report (numbers are limited) and research findings. Please note the childcare report is web-based only.
January 2006
Bookings are now open for the SHS User Day 2006-7th March. Please go to the SHS events page to view agenda and book your place.
Travel Diary 2004 data is now available at the UKDA for analysis- study number 5020
December 05
SHS DATA
· 2003/2004 Main Dataset
The full SHS 2003/2004 dataset and SHS Lite 2003/2004 is now available at the data archive. The travel diary 2004 dataset, will be available shortly.
Please note, if you are not a registered user of the data archive, you will need an Athens password to register. Please refer to our FAQs on accessing data for more information.
You can contact us direct if you would like a CD and user guide for our SHS Lite 2003/2004 dataset - a condensed version of the main dataset.
SHS CONTRACT 2007-2010
The SHS has been running for two four-year sweeps (a total of eight consecutive years) and the current contract with MORI/TNS is scheduled to finish at the end of 2007. An expression of interest advert for the third four-year sweep (2007-2010) will be advertised in Contrax Weekly, the SHS website and the Scottish Executive Social Research website in January next year.
SHS REVIEW 2005The SHS underwent an externally commissioned review throughout the summer of 2005. The review focused on providing information and options on many issues such as the purpose, design, subject coverage, data, management and future development of the survey.
The final contractors report and executive summary are now available from the SHS Review page of our website.
SHS USER DAY 2006
The SHS User Day 2006 will take place on 7th March 2006. A draft list of speakers is available on the User Events webpage
We will open up to bookings at the beginning of next year via our website and this distribution list.
SHS 2007 QUESTIONNAIRE CONSULTATION
The SHS questionnaire is currently undergoing a comprehensive consultation and will be revised for 2007 and 2008.
Further details of this and how to make suggestions are available on the questionnaire consultation page of our website.
PUBLICATIONS
· SHS Analytical Topic Reports
The first two SHS analytical topic reports on: Mode Choice and Accessibility and Transport have been published. The main reports and research findings can be accessed from our website. Please contact us if you would like hard copies of the full reports.
· New Quarterly Publication
Key trends from quarter 2 (2005) SHS data are now available from our website.
· Forthcoming Publications
-'Household Transport in 2004' will be published tomorrow.
-'Transport across Scotland in 2003 and 2004' will be published in January.
Both of the above publications contain SHS data
August 2005
*** Scottish Household Survey 2003/2004 Results***
The Scottish Household Survey 2003/2004 annual reports were published on the 4th August 2005, providing national and local authority level data. The full reports can be accessed from the annual publications page. Please contact the SHS Team if you require hard copies of the reports.
click here for related news release and brief overview of national results.
July 2005
***SHS Website Updates***
2001/2002 Webtables
The 2001/2002 data tables are now on the SHS website. This provides a facility for data analysis by the 32 local authorities.
The 2003/2004 Webtables will be available on the website in September.
***SHS User Community***
We have added an interactive database with details of our user community using SHS data to inform research. Type in a keyword or search by organisation type to find out about the wide ranging use of SHS data.
Please let us know if you would like the details of your research with SHS data added into the database.
***SHS & the Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy***
A new ' ASB & the SHS' page has been added to our website. It provides links to a document will be particularly useful to our users in community safety partnerships who need to know what SHS data is used for core ASB indicators.
***SHS Annual Reports***
The SHS 2003/2004 annual reports and dataset will be published on the 4th August. This will follow the same format as last year with 4 separate reports:
Annual Report
Methodology
Fieldwork Outcomes
2005/2006 Questionnaire
The 2003/2004 questionnaire document published last year is still available on request from the SHS team.
Please contact the SHS team, providing your full postal address, if you wish to be on our distribution list for hard copies of the 2003/2004 reports and the 2005/6 questionnaire.
***ESDS Scottish Government Dataset Meeting***
8th September Edinburgh University Data Library
The Scottish Household Survey team will be presenting at this event. Click here for more information and to book a place.
May 2005
** SHS Topic List**
The SHS topic list has now been updated to include changes from 2005. Click here to download a word version.
April 2005
** Questionnaire Update**
What's in and what's out?
Changes were made to 2003/2004 questionnaire after a consulation excercise in the summer of 2004. A summary document of the changes is now available from the survey content page. The 2005 questionnaire will be published in August 2005.
**SHS Review**
Would you like your views heard?
You can now contribute to the SHS review by downloading the Review Questionnaire
**Web Update**
The Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics website has now been updated with a number of indicators from 2001/2002 SHS.
** Publications**
Scottish Household Survey Travel Diary results for 2003 is now on the website
March 2005
**SHS Review up-date**
The Project Initiation document is now on our website.
**How to get results**
2001/2002 data tables will be appearing on the website soon.
February 2005
** Statistical Publications Notice- Qtr 3 2004**
The statistical publications notice for Scottish Household Survey qtr 3 2004 data was published on the 23rd February 2005. Click here for the recent data trends on social justice, transport and housing.
** User Event**
The SHS User Event will be held on the 1st March 2005. Click here for more details. Presentations will be availabe on the website after the event for those of you who cannot make it.
** FAQ up-date**
We have up-dated our frequently asked questions on accessing the data on our website - everything you need to know about how to conduct a follow-up study, get a table that isn't already published or get a special data set created just for you.
**Transport Statistics publications of SHS results**
"Household Transport in 2003 - some SHS results" was published in November. Click here to access the information.
Two more bulletins will be published in March 2005:
"SHS Travel Diary results for 2003"
"Bus and Coach Statistics 2003-04" - this includes more detailed analyses of the results of some of the SHS's bus-related questions.
Copies are (or will be) available from:
SE Web site - go to www.scotland.gov.uk/transtat/latest
Blackwell's Bookshop, 53 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1YS - price £2 each. Tel: 0131 622 8283 FAX: 0131 622 8258.
** Other Publications**
The Census -linked survey of non-response is now on our website.
This report presents information on the characteristics of non-respondents to the Scottish Household Survey (SHS) using linked data from the 2001 Census and the SHS sample from April to June 2001.Census data were successfully linked to 90.2% of the records included in the study.
The non-response rate for households matched with census records was 28.3% (13.3% non-contacts and 15.0% refusals).
Other results included:
SHS households that were difficult to contact tended to be:
- single adult households;
- households with one adult in employment;
- households consisting of people who did not form a family;
- renting from private landlords, Registered Social Landlords or Housing Associations;
- living in purpose built flats or maisonettes;
- occupying one to three rooms only or
- without a car or van.
The Household Reference Person of refusing households tended to be:
- older,
- widowed,
- not academically qualified or
- retired.
The main report can be accessed via the other publications page
**SHS Review up-date**
The invitations to tender on the SHS review have been sent out.