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1 The programme reflects the major contribution of Jill Alexander in the office of the Chief Economic Adviser in drawing this work together supported by the Economics Advice and Statistics Divisions of the Development and Rural Affairs Department and particularly Dr John Rigg and the Economics Advice and Statistics Division of the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department.
2 John Rigg, Jill Alexander and Ann Thomson, "The Scottish Economy: Official Statistics for the New Millennium", Scottish Economic Bulletin, No 56, March 1998, pp 51-59.
3 Ann Thomson, "Sources of Official Statistics on the Scottish Economy", Scottish Economic Bulletin, No 55, September 1997, pp 51-61.
4 This Scottish Economic Statistics Programme paper will itself be drawn upon for the Scottish Executive's submission to the National Statistics plans for 2000-01.
5 The ABI consolidates the ONS's principal surveys of the business sector into a single survey and replaces the Annual Employment Survey, the Annual Censuses of Production and Construction and the Annual Distributive and Service Inquiries.
6 For further information see Economic Trends number 512, June 1996 "Measuring Real Growth- Index Numbers and Chain Linking" and Economic Trends Number 552, November 1999 "The Development of Chain Linked and Harmonised Estimates of GDP at Constant Prices".
7 Maria Melling and Lynn Graham are statisticians in the Economics Advice and Statistics division of the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department
8 Neil Ritchie is an economist in the Rural Affairs Department.
9 Details are published annually in 'Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture'.
10 Small Area Data Sources for Socio Economic Typologies
of Rural Scotland (CRU 1998).
Scottish Rural Life - The Scottish Office (1992).
Scottish Rural Life Update - The Scottish Office (1996).
11 To qualify for a grant a petrol station must: be at least 30 minutes drive time from the edge of a peri-urban area (areas with a population of over 30,000); have a throughput of less than 1m litres per annum; be at least 8 miles by roads from its nearest neighbouring petrol station; and sell lead free petrol and diesel. With the village shops rate relief scheme rural is classed as areas outside settlements of more than 3,000 inhabitants.
12 The unitary authorities identified as rural on this basis are: Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll & Bute; Dumfries & Galloway; East Ayrshire; Highland; Moray; Orkney Islands; Perth & Kinross; Scottish Borders; Shetland islands; South Ayrshire; Stirling; Western Isles.
13 This is the same as 100 people per km2.
14 Roger Halliday is a statistician in the Economics Advice and Statistics division of the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department.
15 Net Output - This is defined as gross output less the cost of purchases and the cost of industrial services received and is adjusted for net duties and levies etc. where applicable. Purchases are adjusted for changes during the year of stocks of materials, stores and fuel.
16 See Government Statistical Service methodological papers 5 & 15.
17 Gross Output - This is defined as total sales and work done adjusted for the change during the year of work in progress and goods on hand for sale and for 1997 only, work of a capital nature by own staff.
18 This represents around 4% of businesses in Scotland. All sizes of businesses are covered, though half are large enterprises (with annual turnover in excess of £1 million). As a result around 50% of all business by value is represented in the survey sample. Furthermore a grossing methodology is used to minimize sampling variability by adjusting for changes in the constitution of the survey sample.
19 The most recent tables relate to 1996
1 An enterprise is generally defined as a legal unit, person or group of people producing goods or services under their own control and with their own legal identity.
2 This is derived using different methodologies and sources from the more accurate total employment figure generated from the Labour Force survey, and reported in Section 4 - Labour Market.
3 Although for simplicity both here and in the tables we will refer to the service sector, it should be noted that the figures quoted do not relate to the entire service sector, but only to those sectors covered by the Office for National Statistics' Annual Business Inquiry. Broadly, this excludes the public sector and the financial sector. See the notes for a precise definition.
4 The data in the following tables all relate to the period to which the map relates.
1 Based on figures from the General Register Office for Scotland
2 In the mid-1960s, net out-migration averaged 32,000, while it fell considerably in the 1970s and 1980s, averaging around 15,500 per year in the 1980s. In the 1990s, migration stabilised, with net immigration in some years.
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