SNS: Access to Services - Proposed Data Update
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Access to services data currently available on SNS, comes from two sources namely the Availability to Rural Services report published in October 2002 and
the drive times to key services, Primary and Secondary Schools, GP's, Post Offices, Petrol Stations and Retail Centres, from SIMD 2006 (please see the SIMD technical note for full details www.scotland.gov.uk/simd2006technical ). This information can be used to identify areas in which access to services is poor, assess location and characteristics of people with restricted access to essential services, improve access to services for excluded groups/communities. However, we would like to update this data and standardise the way we assess them in terms of drive-times and public transport times to these locations as of 2007.
We would welcome comments on these proposals and, in particular, the choice of key services chosen.
Thanks
SNS Team
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