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Using SHS Lite in support of policy development in Fife Coryn Barclay

Using SHS Lite in support of policy development in Fife Coryn Barclay Community Budgeting Project Manager, Corporate Research, Fife Council. Why is SHS important to Fife?. Collects a range of information about Fife and other local authorities

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Using SHS Lite in support of policy development in Fife Coryn Barclay

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  1. Using SHS Lite in support of policy development in Fife Coryn Barclay Community Budgeting Project Manager, Corporate Research, Fife Council

  2. Why is SHS important to Fife? • Collects a range of information about Fife and other local authorities • Annual report comparing Fife with local authority areas • Reports every two years comparing Fife with individual local authorities • Data for Fife is available annually (1,000 interviews per year)

  3. Why do further analysis? • To provide a local picture • To test a particular theory • To focus on particular behaviours or household characteristics • To place primary research in context

  4. How analysis relates to policy • To provide a context to primary research in Fife and at a local level • To assess whether a sample is typical • To determine scale of behaviours observed • To test or challenge official views • To inform the evidence base

  5. Why use SHS Lite? • It’s easier! • Reduced flat file • Fewer variables, easier to find • More derived variables • Variables grouped into Sets • Separate files for household and random adult parts of the survey

  6. Demographics Community Involvement Economic Activity Health, caring and childcare Household Resources Housing Local Council Neighbourhoods Transport Survey Administration Using Variable Sets

  7. How have we used it in Fife? • Fife Findings: 2001/2002 Scottish Household Survey • Community Planning Milestones • Customer Contact Strategy • Substitute for Women’s Safety Survey • Community Safety Audit • Inform Fife DAAT of drug/alcohol issues • Standard question on-line consultation

  8. Limitations: Fife’s use of SHS (1) • Scottish Household Survey not designed to be representative below Local Authority Level • Cannot be used at small area level • Provides Fife context only

  9. Limitations: Fife’s use of SHS (2) • Specialist software needed (SPSS) • Effort involved in analysis • Need to build capacity amongst users • Knowledge of survey structure • Familiarisation with datasets

  10. SHS in the future • Make SHS Lite available annually • Make weighting variable easier to find • Build capacity to produce standard tables into SHS Lite, or • Make standard tables available via web • Enable linking of datasets across years

  11. COSLA -SPSS SHS Team -SHS Lite UK Data Archive ESDS Government -www.data-archive.ac.uk -www.esds.ac.uk -Nesstar -SPSS -STATA How can you get the data?

  12. More about Research in Fife…. • Knowledge Portal www.fifedirect.org.uk -Informing the Plan topic -Services, Scottish Household Survey -Fife Findings -Know Hows • Consultation

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