1. The Scottish House Condition Survey Ian Máté SHCS Manager Communities Analytical Services

2. Outputs The SHCS – basics 3,000 occupied households every year; Unclustered Simple Random Sample of Local Authorities; Stratified - Minimum of 80 surveys in each LA per year 2-stage Survey: Social Survey; 4,600 variables Physical Survey 460 variables Derived variables - fuel poverty bedroom standard Perhaps a couple of hundred Purpose: Measures the quality of people’s experience of housing against the quality of housing in Scotland.

3. SHCS Outputs Fuel Poverty

4. SHCS Outputs Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS) Above the statutory Tolerable Standard? Free from serious disrepair? Energy efficient? Modern facilities and services? Healthy, safe and secure?

5. SHCS Outputs SHQS

6. SHCS Outputs Domestic Dwellings Energy Efficiency

7. SHCS Outputs National data vs LA data Big Bang 1991, 1996, 2002 Sample sizes of about 15,000 - 18,000 LA and National data Continuous 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06 Sample size of about 3,000 per year National data annually LA data combined 3 year data updated annually

8. SHCS Outputs National data vs LA data Continuous 2007, 2008, 2009 Sample size of about 3,000 per year National data annually LA data combined 3 year data updated annually Publish 11 months after end of survey year Annual survey data starts by being 18 months out of date LA 3 year survey data starts by being 30 months out of date

9. SHCS Outputs LA 3 yr NHER data

10. SHCS Outputs 3 yr Local Authorities data Clackmannanshire Falkirk North Lanarkshire West Lothian South Lanarkshire East Ayrshire Fife South Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire West Dunbartonshire Inverclyde East Renfrewshire North Ayrshire Glasgow Renfrewshire Angus Edinburgh NHER Best SCOTLAND Dundee East Lothian Stirling Midlothian Dumfries and Galloway Aberdeen Morayshire Perth & Kinross Argyll Highland Orkney Scottish Borders Aberdeenshire Shetland Eilean Siar NHER Worst

11. Geographies National Local Authorities Urban Rural Council Tax band SIMD

12. SHCS Access SHCS web site http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SHCS 3 year LA data 2003/04-2005/06 –Physical Survey data at individual level –http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SHCS/ PhysicalData2003-2006http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SHCS/ PhysicalData2003-2006 SPSS File

13. SHCS Access Ad hoc service shcs@scotland.gsi.gov.uk Pat Cairns 0131 244 1685 All LA ad hocs placed on web-site http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SHCS/keyanalyses

14. SHCS Access

15. SHCS -Overcrowding Local Authority Overcrowding - Counts Overcrowded Not Overcrowded Total City of Edinburgh8,000202,000210,000 East Lothian1,00039,00040,000 Fife1,000157,000 Midlothian2,00032,00033,000 Scottish Borders1,00050,00051,000 West Lothian1,00069,00070,000 SCOTLAND85,0002,210,0002,295,000

16. Overcrowding by Local Authority Area, 2003-06, Row Percents Local Authority Overcrowding - Row % OvercrowdedNot Overcrowded Fife199 West Lothian199 Scottish Borders199 East Lothian397 SCOTLAND496 City of Edinburgh496 Midlothian595 SHCS -Overcrowding

17. OvercrowdedNot Overcrowded Unweighted Totals Local Authority CI Range LowerUpperLowerUpper City of Edinburgh 5,00011,000199,000205,000586 East Lothian -2,00038,00040,000257 Fife -2,000155,000158,000402 Midlothian 1,0002,00031,00032,000262 Scottish Borders -1,00050,00051,000240 West Lothian -2,00068,00070,000260 Scotland75,00094,0002,210,0002,200,0009,330 Unweighted Totals3189,012

18. Boosts Scottish Borders 500 private sector household boost completed 1 st half of 2008. Draft data delivered and starting process of training and documentation. Aberdeenshire 3 year boost of 150 private sector households per year Starts in January

19. Boosts Expensive Highest Quality 5% revisits + all BTS No management overheads for LA Procurement through SG contract IT support and training and documentation provided free by SHCS SG Staff. Hundreds of analyses already coded. Data fully integrated with SHCS national data set. Some customization problems – geographies, availability of comparable datasets etc.

20. Boosts But you don’t have to buy from us. We are happy to provide expert and impartial advice on house condition surveys

21. What we would like from you? Concurrent review of Scottish Household Survey and the Scottish House Condition Survey through 2010 Ready for 2011 Census Reduce unnecessary overlap Increase common methodologies Expert Steering Committees for both Surveys – Need LA representation on both.

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