ANNEX 2 TECHNICAL NOTES
geographical location
The six-fold categories of urban and rural Scotland was defined as shown below. It was based on calculations of geographical remoteness, generated from the respondent's postcode and classified using the technique created for the Executive's Scottish Household Survey (SHS).
- The four cities - Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow (settlements of over 125,000 population). This category makes up 33.2% of the weighted sample - like the other categories, this percentage was very much in line with SHS
- Other urban - settlements of over 10,000 people, other than the four cities above. 25.3 % of the sample in this survey.
- Small accessible towns - settlements of between 3,000 and 10,000 people and within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10,000 or more people. 13.7% of the sample.
- Small remote towns - settlements of between 3,000 and 10,000 people, who are not within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10,000 or more people. 3.6% of the overall sample.
- Accessible rural - settlements of fewer than 3,000 people and within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10,000 of more people. 11.2% of the sample.
- Remote rural - settlements of fewer than 3,000 people who are not within 30 minutes drive of a settlement of 10,000 or more people. 5.7% of the sample.
deprivation scores
The deprivation scores were calculated from the postcode for each respondent. This information was used to identify the postcode's ward level score from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 - the 2600 scores were then ranked from highest (i.e. the most deprived area) to the lowest (i.e. the least deprived). The ranking was then divided into five equal sized groups to create a range from the most to the least deprived quintiles of the sample. Consideration was given to creating a more detailed series of scores (e.g. deciles) but the small base sizes for some sections of the questionnaire would have rendered this approach ineffective.