Gypsy/Travellers in Scotland - A Comprehensive Analysis of the 2011 Census
This report brings together analysis previously published to provide a comprehensive and wide ranging evidence base on Scotland’s Gypsy/Travellers. It presents analysis of key areas such as health, education, housing, transport and economic indicators to reveal important information on the lives and life chances of Gypsy/Travellers.
Annex A: Definitions
Care
The term ‘care’ covers any unpaid help, looking after or supporting family members, friends, neighbours or others because of long-term physical or mental ill-health or disability or problems related to old age.
Communal Establishment
A Communal Establishment is defined as an establishment providing managed residential accommodation. Managed means full-time or part-time supervision of the accommodation. Examples include prisons, large hospitals and hotels.
Dependent Children
A dependent child is any person aged 0 to 15 years in a household (whether or not in a family) or a person aged 16 to 18 in full-time education, or living in a family with his or her parent(s) or grandparent(s). It does not include any people aged 16 to 18 who have a spouse, partner or child living in the household.
Family Reference Person (FRP)
The Family Reference Person (FRP) is identified by criteria based on the family make up. In a lone parent family it is taken to be the lone parent. In a couple family, the FRP is chosen from the two people in the couple on the basis of their economic activity (in the priority order: full-time job, part-time job, unemployed, retired, other). If both people have the same economic activity, the FRP is identified as the elder of the two or, if they are the same age, the first member of the couple on the form.
Gender
The 2011 Census asked respondents 'What is your sex?', whereas the term 'gender' is used throughout this paper. The Scottish Government prefers its equality policy to focus on the social differences between men and women (gender) as opposed to medical differences (sex).
Household Reference Persons (HRPs) provide an individual person within a household to act as a reference point for producing further derived statistics and for characterising a whole household according to the characteristics of the chosen reference person.
Urban and Rural Scotland: The Scottish Government 8-fold urban rural classification:
| Large Urban Areas – Settlements of over 125,000 people |
| Other Urban Areas - Settlements of 10,000 to 125,000 people |
| Accessible Small Towns – Settlements of between 3,000 and 10,000 people and within 30 minutes’ drive of a settlement of 10,000 or more. |
| Remote Small Towns - Settlements of between 3,000 and 10,000 people and with a drive time of over 30 minutes but less than 60 minutes to a settlement of 10,000 or more. |
| Very Remote Small Towns - Settlements of between 3,000 and 10,000 people and with a drive time of over 60 minutes to a settlement of 10,000 or more. |
| Accessible Rural – Areas with a population of less than 3,000 people, and within a 30 minute drive time of a settlement of 10,000 or more. |
| Remote Rural - Areas with a population of less than 3,000 people, and with a drive time of over 30 minutes but less than 60 minutes to a settlement of 10,000 or more. |
| Very Remote Rural - Areas with a population of less than 3,000 people, and with a drive time of over 60 minutes to a settlement of 10,000 or more. |
Variations in Base Sizes for Tables
Throughout the report, different population bases are used for different tables. Some cover ‘all people’ whereas others cover ‘all people in households’. There are also different bases for language tables covering those ‘aged 3 and over’ and for marital status which cover those ‘aged 16 and over’.
Contact
Email: Mhairi Wallace
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