Scottish Social Attitudes survey 2021/22: attitudes data

Footnotes

1. Coronavirus and Scotland (parliament.uk)

2. UK Government Coronavirus Guidance

3. Scottish Government Mask Wearing Guidance

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6. GDP first quarterly estimate: 2022 Quarter 2 (April to June) - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

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13. Scotland's Labour Market Trends September 2022

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17. Bank of England Monetary Policy Report August 2022

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24. This includes empty / derelict addresses, buildings under construction, holiday homes, businesses, other non-residential (such as schools, offices and institutions), and addresses that had been demolished. Based on other similar surveys it was assumed that 10% of addresses would fall into this category.

25. Those who would vote to Remain in a hypothetical future referendum are referred to as 'Remainers' and those who would vote to Leave as 'Leavers' for the purposes of this report

26. Further details on these scales can be found in the accompanying Technical Report.

27. A new attitude scale was created this year, which combined responses from 7 questions on how the COVID-19 pandemic was handled in Scotland. Further details on this scale can also be found in the accompanying Technical Report.

28. Logistic regression was conducted by firstly running a model using all the subgroup variables, then by running a reduced model including only those variables where there was a significant and theoretically plausible relationship between them and the outcome variable. The variables in the reduced model for this analysis were age category, urban-rural, left-right scale, political party identification and views on independence. Further details of the logistic regression analysis are provided in the Technical Report, and the results are shown in an annex table to this report.

29. Variables included in the reduced regression model were position on left-right scale, party political identification, views on independence and views on Scotland's handling of the pandemic.

30. Variables in the reduced model were age, educational qualification, left-right scale, party political identification, interest in politics, and views on Scotland's handling of the pandemic.

31. Variables in the reduced model were party political identification, views on Scottish independence, attitudes towards Britain's membership of the EU and views on Scotland's handling of the pandemic.

32. Variables included in the reduced model were party political identification, views on independence and views on Scotland's handling of the pandemic.

33. Even though Britain has now left the EU, these questions have 'the European Union' as a response option as they are long-running, repeat questions dating back to before the 2016 referendum. The continued inclusion of the EU as a response option will be kept under review by the SSA team.

34. Area deprivation on SSA 2021/22 is measured using the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020 divided into quintiles. SIMD 2020 measures the level of deprivation across Scotland – from the least deprived to the most deprived areas. It is based on 38 indicators in seven domains of: income, employment, health, education skills and training, housing, geographic access and crime. Further details are included in the separate technical report.

35. Variables in the reduced model were SIMD and views on independence.

36. Variables in the reduced model were gender, SIMD, urban-rural, perceptions of ability to live on household income, party political identification, views on independence and views on Scotland's handling of the pandemic.

37. Variables in the reduced model were age, gender, household income, educational qualification, position on liberal-authoritarian scale, interest in politics and views on Scotland's handling of the pandemic.

38. Although there was a significant relationship between attitudes towards redistribution and a person's position on the left-right scale, answers to the question on redistribution are used to create the scale itself. Therefore, any relationship between the dependent and independent variable in this case have the potential to be circular, so have not been reported.

39. For the purpose of this analysis the level of satisfaction with the NHS was collapsed into a binary variable; satisfied or dissatisfied/neither satisfied nor dissatisfied. Variables in the reduced model were household income, attitudes towards Britain's membership of the EU, assessments of Scotland's handling of the pandemic and perceptions of ability to live on present income.

40. British Social Attitudes 35 | Social trust (natcen.ac.uk)

41. Variables in the reduced model were household income, educational qualifications, perceptions of ability to live on present income, position on liberal-authoritarian scale, views on independence, and views on Scotland's handling of the pandemic.