Scottish household survey 2019: supplementary analysis

A compilation of the ad hoc queries for data from the Scottish Household Survey (SHS) received in 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis, updated with the latest data from the 2019 SHS.


Neighbourhoods and Communities

16% of non-Scottish/British adults felt that they could not rely on their neighbours if they needed help compared to 7% of Scottish/British adults.

This represents approximately 82,000 non-Scottish/British adults. Overall, around 8% of adults, or approximately 358,000 people, disagreed with the statement that if they were alone and needed help, they could rely on someone in their neighbourhood to help them.

If I needed help, I could not rely on someone in my neighbourhood to help
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This bar chart shows the proportion of non-Scottish/British and Scottish/British adults who felt that they could rely on someone in their neighbourhood to help.

11% of adults who had a long-term limiting health condition (approx. 118,000 people) felt they could not rely on their neighbours if they needed help

Individuals with long-term health conditions are more likely to be in high clinical risk or vulnerable categories

Contact

Email: shs@gov.scot

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