Scottish Government

Methods and Background

Scottish Household Survey data

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• Background information for the SHS Background Information

• Information on the background of the Travel Diary
• More information available from the SHS Web site

Department for Transport Data

• Information on DfT Bus and Coach data DfT Bus Information

• DfT statistics homepage

Road Accident/Casualty data

• Stats 19 illustrative forms: show the information collected. Reported Road Casualties Scotland includes copies, and outlines what might also be collected for local use.
• Stats 20 instructions for the completion of the returns: detailed notes of guidance on the accidents to be reported and on points on individual fields.
• Stats 21 procedures for submitting road accident data: details of record layouts and validity checks etc.

Variables and values (2005 onwards)

Final details of the variables and their codes are given in:

• "Stats 20" (2005) - produced in October 2004. Includes an example of the English/Welsh form. (PDF 116 pages)
• "Stats 20" (2005) - without the English/Welsh form (Word 112 pages)

Further documentation

The documents below were produced in December 2003 - although there have been minor changes to the descriptions/labels of a few variables/codes there have been no changes to the variables or the valid codes.

• Introduction to the specification for 2005 (3 pages)
• List of changes to be made from January 2005 (14 pages)
• Full list of "Stats 19" variables and values (2005) (15 pages)
• "Stats 19" (2005) - for completion by Police (4 pages)
• "Stats 19" (2005) - self-reported accidents (3 pages)
• "Stats 21" (2005) ( 21 pages) NB: The following changes have been made since this was produced:

Historical Documentation (1999 to 2004)

• "Stats 19" (1999) (3 pages)
• "Stats 20" (1999) (over 90 pages)
• "Stats 21" (1999) (21 pages)