Economic conditions of crofting: survey 2019 to 2022

Footnotes

1 Both tenants and owner-occupier crofters were included in the extract. A number of exclusions were made from the complete Register of Crofts. Landlords of vacant crofts were excluded, as were incomplete entries and incomplete addresses as well as a limited number of entries containing invalid data. This left a pool of 12,409 crofters, from which a sample of 4,000 were selected at random.

2 All proportions produced in a survey have a degree of error associated with them because they are generated from a sample of the population rather than the population as a whole. Any proportion measured in the survey has an associated confidence interval (±3%). It is possible with any survey that the sample achieved produces estimates that are outside this range. The number of times out of 100 surveys when the result achieved would lie within the confidence interval is also quoted; this is 95%.

3 Estimates of Households and Dwellings in Scotland are available here. Estimates from 2002 onwards are based on the proportion of households of each type from the Scottish Household Survey (SHS). The estimates of the number of households of each type obtained from the SHS are adjusted so that the total number of households is equal to the National Records Scotland (NRS) mid-year household estimate figure in each year (Mid-Year Household Estimate).

4 Mid-2021 Population Estimates Scotland from NRS are available here.

5 Final results from the 2021 June Scottish Agricultural Census are available here.

6 Final results from the 2021 June Scottish Agricultural Census are available here.

7 Mid-2021 Population Estimates Scotland from NRS are available here.

8 The figure for the Scottish Population is taken from Excel tables, Chapter 2 – composition, Table 2.3 from the Scottish Household Survey. Supporting documents - Scottish household survey 2019: annual report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

9 The figure for the Scottish Population is taken from Excel tables, Chapter 2 – composition from the Scottish Household Survey. Supporting documents - Scottish household survey 2019: annual report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).

10 This figure represents a small number of respondents with a very high income.

11 Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2017-20 (data.gov.scot) It should be noted that the figure for crofting households does not take into account household composition, however.