The Scottish House Condition Survey

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 • Continuous 2007, 2008, 2009 • 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year data updated annually • Publish 11 months after end of survey year • Annual survey data starts by being 18 months out of date • LA 3 year survey data starts by being 30 months out of date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 Local Authorities 3 yr data

10. SHCS Outputs 3 yr Local Authorities data NHER Best 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/PhysicalData2003-2006 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

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18. What we would like from you? • Concurrent review of Scottish House Condition 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

19. What we would like from you? • Concurrent review of Scottish House Condition 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.

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

21. 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.

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

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