Social Security Experience Panels: agency recruitment

Footnotes

1. Dumfries, Edinburgh, Fort William, Glasgow, Greenock, Hamilton, Inverness, Irvine, Kirkcaldy and Lanark

2. Scottish Government (2017). Social Security Experience Panels: About Your Benefits and You – Quantitative Research Findings. [Online] Available at: www.gov.scot/Publications/2017/11/7769/

3. Scottish Government (2018). Social Security Experience Panels: Who is in the panels and their experiences so far. [Online] Available at: www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/10/3083/

4. Participants were able to select multiple options.

5. Percentages include all participants who took part. Participants were able to select multiple options.

6. 17% of the Scottish population lives in a rural area - Scottish Government (2018). Rural Scotland Key Facts 2018. [Online] Available at: www2.gov.scot/Resource/0054/00541327.pdf

7. Participants had experience of applying for (themselves or someone else) or receiving these benefits within the last 3 years, but were not necessarily in receipt of the benefit at the time of the survey.

8. Scottish Government (2018). Social Security Experience Panels: Who is in the panels and their experiences so far. [Online] Available at: www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/10/3083

9. Excludes Universal Job Match, the Department for Work and Pensions website which is used by benefit claimants to find jobs but is not where public sector jobs are typically advertised.

10. Non-departmental public body.