Free Personal and Nursing Care, Scotland, 2022-23

Where possible, missing data were estimated, following the process described in ’Process for Estimation of Missing Figures’, under the Data Quality section of the separate ‘Methodology and Background Information’ document. All estimated figures, including those for previous years, are labelled with [e] in the accompanying tables.

Some missing data were unable to be estimated, as no historic figure was available from which to estimate forward. These missing data points are marked with [NR] in the accompanying tables.

Estimated and missing data from 2022-23 are listed below:

Estimated data

Aberdeen City:

• all variables collected: 2022-23 Q3 and Q4

South Ayrshire:

• number of Care at Home clients (returns table 2a; publication table 5): all quarters of 2022-23
• number of Care at Home clients receiving Personal Care at Home (returns table 2c; publication table 6): all quarters of 2022-23

• number of hours of personal care provided at home (returns table 2e; publication table 7): all quarters of 2022-23

Scottish Borders:

• number of Care at Home clients receiving Personal Care at Home (returns table 2c; publication table 6): all quarters of 2022-23; age 65+ only
• number of hours of personal care provided at home (returns table 2e; publication table 7): all quarters of 2022-23; age 65+ only

Missing data

To give a sense of the impact of missing data, the estimated percentage of Scotland's total population that lives in each Local Authority with missing data is indicated next to their names below. NRS mid-2021 population estimates were used to calculate these estimates.

These missing data mean the Scotland total for number of (personal) Care at Home clients, and hours and expenditure on Personal Care at Home will be underestimates (publication tables 5, 6, 7 and 11). However, note it is only Scotland total figures that will be underestimates; no adjustment is needed to average ‘per client’ estimates.

When calculations were made involving one or more variables with missing data, the same Local Authorities were excluded from all variables involved. For example, calculating the Scottish average number of hours of Personal Care at Home per client aged 18-64 (chapter 3; 18-64 section). Here, Glasgow City and Scottish Borders’ data were excluded from the number of clients (table 6) because these data were already missing from the number of hours of Personal Care at Home (table 7).

Fife (estimated 7% of total Scotland population):

• expenditure on Personal Care services provided to people in their own home (returns table 2d; publication table 11): all quarters of 2022-23

Glasgow City (estimated 12% of total Scotland population):

• number of hours of personal care provided at home (returns table 2e; publication table 7): all quarters of 2022-23, due to the historic omission of hours for self-directed support clients from the data.

Scottish Borders (estimated 2% of total Scotland population):

• number of Care at Home clients (returns table 2a; publication table 5): all quarters of 2022-23
• number of Care at Home clients receiving Personal Care at Home (returns table 2c; publication table 6): all quarters of 2022-23 (age 65+ only)
• number of hours of personal care provided at home (returns table 2e; publication table 7): all quarters of 2022-23

South Ayrshire (estimated 2% of total Scotland population):

• expenditure on Personal Care services provided to people in their own home (returns table 2d; publication table 11): all quarters of 2022-23