Scottish Health Survey 2015 - volume 2: technical report

Details of the methodology and fieldwork for the Scottish Health Survey 2015.


Table 1.2 Main sample household response, by Health Board

Selected addresses / eligible households 2015
Address and household outcome Health Board Total
Ayrshire & Arran Borders Dumfries and Galloway Fife Forth Valley Grampian Greater Glasgow & Clyde Highland Lanarkshire Lothian Orkney Shetland Tayside Western Isles
N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N %
Main sample a
Selected addresses 591 140 128 714 205 791 1152 318 655 855 139 193 273 225 6379
Inelligible addresses 55 18 23 74 18 104 124 43 46 99 27 41 47 58 778
Total eligible households 536 122 105 640 187 687 1028 275 609 756 112 152 226 167 5601
Responding households b 382 71 74 61 77 74 370 58 110 59 391 57 560 54 173 63 333 55 362 48 84 75 115 76 141 62 129 77 3301 59
All interviewed c 334 62 56 46 66 63 300 47 92 49 323 47 450 44 128 47 260 43 289 38 74 66 89 59 127 56 106 64 2694 48
Fully cooperating d 307 57 49 40 55 53 252 39 70 37 298 43 395 38 100 36 227 37 257 34 66 59 69 45 116 51 83 50 2344 42
Non-responding households 154 29 48 39 28 26 270 42 77 41 296 43 468 46 102 37 276 45 394 52 28 25 37 24 85 38 38 23 2300 41
Non-contact - eligible 6 1 1 1 0 0 24 4 8 4 78 11 51 5 8 3 40 7 99 13 3 3 2 1 11 5 2 1 333 6
Non-contact - unknown eligible 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 6 1 7 1 2 1 1 0 4 1 0 0 2 1 2 1 2 1 30 1
Refusal 123 23 37 30 25 24 190 30 62 33 157 23 362 35 71 26 212 35 247 33 17 15 26 17 60 27 23 14 1612 29
Other non-response - eligible 24 4 10 8 1 1 50 8 7 4 55 8 49 5 20 7 23 4 44 6 8 7 7 5 12 5 11 7 321 6
Other non-response - unknown eligibility 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0

a This includes the Health Board boost household response

b Households where at least one person was interviewed

c All eligible household members were interviewed, but not all had height and weight measured or agreed to take part in the biological module if eligible

d All eligible household members were interviewed, had height and weight measured and completed to take part in the biological module if eligible

Contact

Email: Julie Landsberg, julie.landsberg@gov.scot

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