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1.1 This bulletin provides information from the Scottish Household Survey (SHS) about the transport facilities available to private households, and about some travel by household members. The topics covered include the accessibility and frequency of bus services; the availability of cars for private use; the types of motor vehicles that are available; people's possession of driving licences and their frequency of driving; reasons for driving, for not driving and for not using buses more often; people's frequency of walking and cycling; travel to work; travel to school; adults with limited mobility and adults with Orange Badges. Almost all the statistics given here were extracted in early December 2000, so will not take account of subsequent revisions to the SHS database. Further bulletins will provide information on (e.g.) the kinds of journeys made by adults, the variation in the patterns of transport and travel across Scotland, and year-to-year changes.
1.2 The SHS collects a wide range of information. Some questions are asked about the household as a whole, and all the people in it; some relate only to one randomly-chosen adult (aged 16 or over) member of the household; and some are asked only about one schoolchild (if there is one in the household). Some questions are answered on behalf of the household by the Highest Income Householder (please see section A.4 of the "Notes and Definitions") or his/her spouse/partner; others are answered by the randomly-chosen adult member of the household on behalf of him/herself. The results are weighted to take account of differences in selection probabilities. As with all such surveys, factors such as sampling variability and non-response bias may affect the results (see section A.11). And, as it is a survey of private households, the SHS does not cover some sections of the population - for example, it does not collect information about many students, such as those who live in halls of residence (see section B.2.3 of the background information about the survey).
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