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Health and homelessness in Scotland: research
Study exploring the relationship between homelessness and health.
Annex B: The homelessness data used in the Study (The HL1 Dataset)
| Population Data | |
|---|---|
| Data controller: | Scottish Government |
| A record represents: | A homeless application |
| Data collection start: | The system went live nationally on 10 December 2001, with major changes to changes to the questions in 2007 |
| Frequency of collection: | Quarterly from Local Authorities |
| Number of annual records: | 52,000 in 2002/03 reducing to 34,000 in 2016/17 |
| Geography coverage: | Scotland |
| Population coverage: | All homeless applications in Scotland |
| Study Data | |
|---|---|
| Data period: | Varies by Local Authority. First assessment is dated 4 June 2001 and last assessment is dated 7 November 2016. Note: some Local Authorities were able to go live before the national rollout in 2001. |
| Number of records: | 429,078 applications which were assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness [55] |
| Hereafter referred to as: | Homelessness Data |
| Population coverage: | The study dataset contains all HL1 applications which were matched to records in the H2H dataset and filtered to include only those which were assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness. |
| Variables | |
| LACODE | Q1: Local Authority code |
| APPREF | Q3: Application Reference |
| APPDATE | Q2: Date of application |
| PREVAPP | Q4: Application reference of the most recent of any associated applications |
| GENDER1 | Q9.1: Gender of main applicant |
| MILITARY | Q10c: Whether any member of the applicant household was formerly a member of the armed services |
| LKDAFTER | Q10d: Whether any member of the applicant household aged under 25 years was looked after as a child by their local authority |
| ROUGH | Q12: Has any member of the applicant household slept rough during the 3 months preceding their application |
| ROOFLESS | Q13: Did any member of the applicant household sleep rough on the night immediately preceding the date of application |
| PROPERTY | Q14a: From what type of property did the main applicant become homeless / threatened with homelessness? |
| REASON | Q16: Reason (pre- 1 April 2007) |
| RSNTECH | Q16a: Technical reason for application |
| ASSESS | Q17: Statutory assessment decision |
| ASSDATE | Q18: Date of assessment decision |
| SPTNDS1 | Q20b.1: Reasons for support needs - Mental health problem |
| SPTNDS2 | Q20b.2: Reasons for support needs - Learning disability |
| SPTNDS3 | Q20b.3: Reasons for support needs - Physical disability |
| SPTNDS4 | Q20b.4: Reasons for support needs - Medical condition |
| SPTNDS5 | Q20b.5: Reasons for support needs - Drug or alcohol dependency |
| SPTNDS6 | Q20b.6: Reasons for support needs - Basic housing management / independent living skills |
| OUTCOME | Q22: Duty discharge action taken by authority |
| CLOSDATE | Q27: Date of last action taken and case being closed |
| HHTYPE | Household Type. Derived variable based on the number of adults and children in the applicant household |
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