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Scottish Household Survey 2007 Headline Results
11/06/2008
Scotland's Chief Statistician today published Headline Results from the 2007 Scottish Household Survey. This contains provisional results for 2007, and reports the latest available figures on a number of topics, including satisfaction with neighbourhood, tenure, how people are managing financially, travel to work, car availability, convenience of services, recycling, access to the internet, smoking and self perception of health.
Some of the main results from the survey, set out in more detail in the main report, are:
Neighbourhoods and communities
- 93 per cent of adults rate their neighbourhood as a very or fairly good place to live. Neighbourhood rating is one of the Government's national performance indicators. This percentage has not changed a great deal since the first Scottish Household Survey in 1999
- 27 per cent of adults in the most deprived quintile rated their Neighbourhood as 'very good' compared with 75 per cent of those in the least deprived quintile
Income and Financial Inclusion
- 21 per cent of households have an annual net household income of less than £10,000
- 52 per cent of households say they manage their finances very or quite well; 69 per cent of households in the least deprived areas compared to 36 per cent in the most deprived
Transport and travel
- The percentage of adults travelling to work by car has increased from 67 per cent in 2006 to 69 per cent in 2007. This measurement is the basis of the Government's national performance indicator on journeys to work by public or active transport
- 70 per cent of households have a car available for private use: 42 per cent in the lowest earning households and 98 per cent in the highest
Local services
- 58 per cent of adults are satisfied with local health services, local schools and public transport. This is the first year that this data, which forms the basis of the Government's national performance indicator on perceptions of public services, has been collected
- 41 per cent of adults agree that their council provides high quality services, and older people were more likely to agree than younger people
- 82 per cent of adults are very or fairly satisfied with local health services; 79 per cent very or fairly satisfied with local schools and 70 per cent very or fairly satisfied with public transport
- 84 per cent of households use recycling facilities
Internet
- 57 per cent of households have access to the internet: 66 per cent in remote rural areas compared to 54 per cent in large urban areas
Health
- An estimated 24.7 per cent of adults smoked in 2007, a small decrease on the estimated 25.0 per cent who smoked in 2006. Since its introduction in 1999 the SHS has charted a general downwards trend in the proportion of adults who smoke. The 2007 proportion is a 5.7 percentage points reduction on 1999. The percentage of adults who smoke is one of the Government's national performance indicators, with the aim of reducing the percentage of the adult population who smoke to 22 per cent by 2010
- 54 per cent of adults felt their health was good over the last year: 63 per cent in the least deprived areas compared to 44 per cent in the most deprived
National statistics are produced by professionally independent statistical staff.