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The Long Term Strategy for Population Surveys in Scotland
2009 – 2019
Alex StannardStatistician, Scottish Government
ENVIRONMENTALATTITUDES
SURVEY
SCOTTISH HOUSEHOLD
SURVEY
SCOTTISH HOUSE
CONDITIONSURVEY
SCOTTISH CRIME AND
JUSTICESURVEY
PATIENTSEXPERIENCE
SURVEY
GROWINGUP IN
SCOTLAND
SCOTTISH HEALTHSURVEY
MULTIPLECUSTOMER
SATISFACTION SURVEYS
OPINIONSSURVEY
LIVING COSTS AND FOOD
SURVEY
LIFE OPPORTUNITIES
SURVEYUNDERSTANDING
SOCIETY
WEALTH ANDASSETSSURVEY
FAMILYRESOURCES
SURVEY
LABOUR FORCESURVEY
SOCIAL ATTITUDES
SURVEY
MILLENIUMCOHORTSURVEY
GENERALLIFESTYLESURVEY
CENSUS
MULTIPLELOCAL
RESIDENTSSURVEYS
MULTIPLECUSTOMER
SATISFACTION SURVEYS
MULTIPLELOCAL
RESIDENTSSURVEYS
Strategic Aims• To ensure that SG population surveys meet
key information needs while maximising the analytical potential of the data they generate, the precision of estimates and value for money
• To give full consideration to participation, burden, quality & security and the make recommendations that align survey practice across Government and promote good practice to other public bodies
Harmonised Core Questions
• Harmonised for output with Scottish Census and UK surveys
• All major Scottish Government population surveys will ask the mandatory harmonised core questions
• Will pave the way to pooled samples• Recommended for local surveys
Finalised Questions
• Gender• Age last Birthday & Date of Birth• Ethnic group • Religion • Sexual Orientation • Accommodation Size: No of rooms • Accommodation Size: Number of bedroom• Accommodation Type • Tenure • Highest Qualification Held/Qualifications Held • Self Perception of General Health • Employment/Economic Status (incorporating ILO
unemployment)
Questions in progress
• (Legal) Marital Status & Living in a Couple • Limited Long term illness & disability • Access to car/van • Education status • Full/part time • Banded Household Income (coming very soon)• Residence 1 year ago • Mode of transport to work/school (coming very soon)• Attendance on government training programme • Household relationship matrix (coming very soon)
Question review
• Creation of a set of criteria by which to assess core questions
• Evaluation of the current core items against the criteria
• Consideration of other questions not currently in the core.
Suggested Criteria• Clearly defined and significant user
need for the data at a sub-local authority level
• Data must relate to a rarely occurring population characteristic that requires pooled samples to estimate
• All the Major Cross Sectional Surveys currently require the question as a Key Classification variable
Data Management
• Increased efficiency of data management within Scottish Government
• Maintain high security and compliance with Data Protection Act
– Centralised sampling?– Centralised data storage?– Centralised data management?
Pooled Samples
SHS
SHeS
SHCS
SCJS
Local Survey 1
Local Survey 2
n=15,000
n= 8,000
n=3,500
n=16,000
n=1000
n=500
core questions topic or locally specific questions
Combined sample of core questions from all surveys
n=44,000 !!
Respondent Burden and Response Rates
• Address concern over falling response rates on quality of data
• Manage respondent burden
• Capitalise on new technologies and methods of surveying the population- Different modes of data collection?
Analysis and Dissemination
• Increase the use made of survey data
• Increase accessibility and user-friendliness of survey results and datasets
• Provide better support for data users
• How to disseminate pooled sample results?
Scottish Household Survey
• Full ‘roots and branches’ review currently underway
Delivery of the Long Term Strategy
• Delivery plan available on line
• First year’s work:• Developing harmonised core questions• Investigating centralised sampling• SHS review• Review of procurement, consent forms and disclosure
control• Clustering and design effects • Investigating response rates and options for
improvement
Governance
The Scottish Population Surveys Co-ordinating Committee
(Chief Statistician and Chief Researcher chair)
Improvement Service
National Health Service
General Register Office for Scotland
Office for National Statistics
Governance
Scottish Population Surveys Co-ordinating Committee
Scottish Population Surveys Working Group
Permanent Survey Managers
Temporary Topic Experts
Register on ScotStat to be kept up to date
