Scottish Surveys Core Questions 2022

Information on the composition, characteristics and attitudes of Scottish households and adults across a number of topic areas.


Scottish Surveys Core Questions 2022

The Scottish Surveys Core Questions (SSCQ) is an annual Official Statistics publication for Scotland. The SSCQ gathers survey responses from identical indicator questions in the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS), the Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) and the Scottish Household Survey (SHS) into one output.

The Scottish Surveys Core Questions in 2022 reports on the overarching topics: health, demography and equality, as well as perception of crime and confidence in police.

The pooling of the Core Questions results in an annual sample of around 20,000 respondents, providing unprecedented precision of estimates at national level. This sample size enables detailed and reliable analysis of national indicators by equalities characteristics such as ethnic group, religion, country of birth, marital status, sexual orientation, age, sex and veteran status. Further variables available include education level, employment, tenure, car access and household type.

SSCQ also enables a more detailed analysis of sub-national geographies than source surveys allow. Annually, SSCQ reports for local authorities, health boards, area deprivation, urban/rural classification and police divisions.

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