Scottish Health Survey: content review outcomes report

This report summarises changes that have and will be made to the content of the Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) from 2024 onwards. Some of these changes do not apply to the 2024 survey and will be made to future years.


Annex 1 - Scoring sheet (for information only)

The scoring criteria below will be used to assess the need for different health topics.

Scores can fall anywhere between the minimum and maximum shown below.

Score

Criteria (detailing range of possible scores)

 

0 to 20

Relevance

0 - No clear relevance to any current or future Scottish Government

policy/target.

20 - Clear relevance to a Scottish Government policy, with link to

policy strategy/target which will continue into the future.

0 to 20

Support

0 - No Scottish Government/NHSScotland/external/academic

support for bid.

20 - Significant Scottish Government/NHSScotland/external/

academic support.

0 to 10

Used for local measurement

0 - No current or future plans to measure progress against a local

target/delivery plan.

10 - Required to measure progress against a current or future local

target/delivery plan.

0 to 10

Time-series potential

0 - New question/no trend analysis possible.

10 - Consistent time-series analysis possible.

0 to 10

Availability from other sources

0 - Available from other sources/links to other SHeS topics non-essential.

10 - Crucial indicator not available from any other source/links to

other SHeS topics essential.

0 to 10

Frequency and geography required

0 - Question asked of full sample every year.

5 - Question asked of smaller sample every year.

10 - Question asked of smaller sample every second year or every

fourth year.

0 to 10

Tested questions

0 - Not previously tested/wording not finalised.

10 - Previously tested and verified.

0 to 10

Length of proposed question

0 - A suite of questions required of full sample.

10 - One short question.

(questions which are only required of part of the sample (e. g.

people of certain age) would receive more points than those which

are required of the full sample)

Up to 100

 

 

 

 

 

Contact

ScottishHealthSurvey@gov.scot

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