Steven Hope, Ipsos MORI Scotland
Alison MacDonald, TNS Statistical Services
A Scottish Executive National Statistics Publication
ISSN 0950 2254
ISBN 0 7559 5183 2
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Contents
1. Survey overview
Background to the SHS
2. Fieldwork targets and outcomes
Sample performance
Fieldwork performance
3. Weighting
Design weighting
No additional corrective weighting
4. Data quality
5. Survey design factors and complex standard errors
Scottish Executive Statistical Services
Correspondence and enquiries
List of Tables
Table 2 1: Deadwood rate assumptions and actual deadwood
Table 2 2: Summary of outcomes at issued addresses for 2005 sample
Table 2 3: Trends in SHS response rates 1999 to 2005
Table 2 4: Household interview targets and numbers achieved in each local authority, 2005
Table 2 5: Random adult ( RA) response rates, 2005
Table 3 1: Weights to account for disproportionate sampling and differences in household response rates by local authority and quarter, 2005
Table 3 2: Weights to account for disproportionate sampling and differences in random adult response rates by local authority and quarter, 2005
Table 4 1: Comparison of household types in the 2001 Census and the 2005 SHS
Table 4 2: Comparison of key variables in the 2001 Census and the 2005 SHS
Table 4 3: Comparison of weighted and unweighted age and sex profile of 2005 SHS data with 2001 Census estimates
Table 4 4: Comparison of key variables relating to driving and transport
Table 4 5: Comparison of ethnicity in Census 2001 and 2005 SHS
Table 4 6: Comparison of all Scottish households, all sampled households, all eligible households and participating households by urban/rural classification
Table 4 7: Comparison of 2005 SE urban/rural classification of eligible addresses and 2005 participating households
Table 4 8: Comparison of economic activity variables among adults of working age
Table 5 1: Design factors and confidence intervals for key variables in 2005 data