Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2017: technical annex
This technical annex covers the methodological details of the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2017.
Footnotes
1. Like many national surveys of households or individuals, in order to attain the optimum balance between sample efficiency and fieldwork efficiency the sample was clustered. The first stage of sampling involved randomly selecting postcode sectors. The sample frame of postcode sectors was also stratified (by urban-rural, region and the percentage of people in non-manual occupations) to improve the match between the sample profile and that of the Scottish population. For further details of the sample design, see Section 3.
2. See http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/About/Methodology/UrbanRuralClassification for details.
3. See http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD for further details on the SIMD.
4. These variables were created by the ScotCen/NatCen Statistics Unit. They are based on SIMD scores for all datazones, not just those included in the sample – so an individual who lives in the most deprived quintile of Scotland will also be included in the most deprived quintile in the SSA dataset.
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