Publication - Statistics

Scottish Health Survey 2018 - volume 2: technical report

Published: 24 September 2019
Directorate: Population Health Directorate
Topic: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781839600852

Information on methodology and fieldwork, including details of sampling, weighting, response rates, the survey questionnaire and other fieldwork documents.

Supporting documents

Table 1.2 Main sample household response, by Health Board

Address and household outcome	Health Board														Total
Selected addresses/eligible households															2018
Address and household outcome	Ayrshire & Arran	Borders	Dumfries & Galloway	Fife	Forth Valley	Grampian	Greater Glasgow & Clyde	Highland	Lanarkshire	Lothian	Orkney Islands	Shetland Islands	Tayside	Western Isles	Total
	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
Main sample^a
Selected addresses	392	146	137	581	429	556	1433	351	556	982	130	131	398	131
Ineligible addresses	40	18	17	68	27	82	125	54	427	93	22	18	47	25
Total eligible households	352	128	120	513	402	474	1305	297	509	889	108	113	351	106

Table 1.2 - Continued

Address and household outcome	Health Board																												Total
Selected addresses/eligible households																													2018
Address and household outcome	Ayrshire & Arran		Borders		Dumfries & Galloway		Fife		Forth Valley		Grampian		Greater Glasgow & Clyde		Highland		Lanarkshire		Lothian		Orkney Islands		Shetland Islands		Tayside		Western Isles		Total
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Household response
Responding households^b	224	64	83	65	71	59	279	54	244	61	292	62	653	50	156	53	270	53	516	58	80	74	79	70	194	55	75	71	3216	57
All interviewed^c	206	59	68	53	58	48	221	43	183	46	248	52	501	38	124	42	199	39	413	46	66	61	48	42	154	44	62	58	2551	45
Fully co-operating^d	162	46	55	43	39	33	204	40	163	41	199	42	397	30	91	31	146	29	343	39	61	57	41	36	127	36	50	47	2078	37

Non-responding households	128	36	45	35	49	41	234	46	158	39	182	38	652	50	140	47	238	47	372	42	28	26	34	30	157	45	31	29	2448	43
Non-contact – eligible	9	3	1	1	3	3	23	4	8	2	20	4	69	5	11	4	16	3	39	4	5	5	1	1	18	5	6	6	229	4
Non-contact – unknown eligible	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	2	0	14	1	4	1	0	0	6	1	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	34	1
Refusal	99	28	38	30	43	36	183	36	130	32	124	26	492	38	106	36	201	39	291	33	19	18	29	26	122	35	21	20	1898	33
Other non-response – eligible	19	5	6	5	3	3	24	5	20	5	36	8	78	6	19	6	21	4	37	4	3	3	4	4	15	4	4	4	289	5
Other non-response – unknown eligibility	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	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

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