Publication - Research and analysis

The Scottish Health Survey 2008

Published: 29 September 2009
ISBN: 9780755981076

Table 1.1 Main sample household response, by Health Board

Selected addresses/eligible households
2008

Address and household outcome	Health Board														Total
	Ayrshire & Arran	Borders	Dumfries and Galloway	Fife	Forth Valley	Grampian	Greater Glasgow & Clyde	Highlands	Lanark-shire	Lothian	Orkney	Shetland	Tayside	Western Isles	Total
	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
Main sample^a
Selected addresses	389	429	219	671	309	832	1663	357	637	1044	191	182	495	187	7605
Ineligible addresses type a ^b	25	50	21	54	25	98	181	66	37	133	19	22	46	31	808
Addresses at which interview sought	364	379	198	617	284	734	1482	291	600	911	172	160	449	156	6797
Extra households sampled at multi-household addresses	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	4
Total eligible households	364	379	198	617	284	734	1482	291	600	914	172	160	450	156	6801

Table 1.1 - Continued

Selected addresses/eligible households
2008

Address and household outcome	Health Board																												Total
	Ayrshire & Arran		Borders		Dumfries and Galloway		Fife		Forth Valley		Grampian		Greater Glasgow & Clyde		Highlands		Lanark-shire		Lothian		Orkney		Shetland		Tayside		Western Isles		Total
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Household response
Co-operating households ^c	215	59	252	66	139	70	432	70	166	58	459	63	785	53	190	65	363	61	469	51	127	74	123	77	302	67	117	75	4139	61
All interviewed ^d	179	49	199	53	118	60	346	56	128	45	356	49	627	42	151	52	279	47	382	42	110	64	108	68	252	56	95	61	3330	49
Fully co-operating ^e	165	45	186	49	106	54	317	51	116	41	311	42	541	37	136	47	235	39	350	38	99	58	97	61	240	53	91	58	2990	44
Non-responding households	149	41	127	34	59	30	185	30	118	42	275	37	697	47	101	35	237	40	445	49	45	26	37	23	148	33	39	25	2662	39
Non-contact - eligible	5	1	9	2	3	2	9	1	12	4	17	2	51	3	4	1	20	3	66	7	1	1	1	1	11	2	2	1	211	3
Non-contact - unknown eligible	11	3	6	2	6	3	12	2	8	3	26	4	57	4	23	8	3	1	40	4	4	2	6	4	7	2	5	3	214	3
Refusal	88	24	84	22	40	20	118	19	74	26	155	21	425	29	54	19	163	27	269	29	26	15	21	13	76	17	18	12	1611	24
Other non response - eligible	44	12	26	7	9	5	44	7	22	8	74	10	152	10	18	6	50	8	60	7	12	7	9	6	52	12	12	8	584	9
Other non-response - unknown eligibility	1	0	2	1	1	1	2	0	2	1	3	0	12	1	2	1	1	0	10	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	2	1	42	1

a This includes the Health Board boost household response
b Addresses where no private households were found
c Households where at least one person was interviewed
d All eligible household members were interviewed, but not all had height and weight measured or agreed to a nurse visit if eligible
e All eligible household members were interviewed, had height and weight measured and agreed to a nurse visit if eligible

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Table 1.1 Main sample household response, by Health Board

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