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Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 1999
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey was launched by ScotCen Social Research (formerly the Scottish Centre for Social Research) in 1999, following the advent of devolution. Based on annual rounds of interviews of between 1,200 to 1,500 people drawn using probability sampling (based on a stratified,...
Outmigration from Rural Scotland, 2000
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The focus of this project was on the community consequences of out-migration and the migration experiences of individuals. The objectives of the research were:
to analyse out-migration data from the 1991 Census;
to test the value of the Register of Sasines for migration research;
to describe and evaluate...
Scottish House Condition Survey, 1991
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The aims of this study are:
to provide information on the physical condition of Scotland's housing in both the public and the private sector;
to assess the need for improvement and repair;
to quantify and cost this need;
to establish a national picture of house conditions;
to derive a socio-economic...
Scottish House Condition Survey, 1996
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The general objectives of this, the second Scottish House Condition Survey are:
to enable physical quality of Scotland's housing stock to be monitored at a national level;
the contribute to our understanding of factors which influence the physical condition of the housing stock;
to describe the...
Scottish House Condition Survey, 2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS) is the largest single housing survey undertaken in Scotland and the only national study to look at the physical condition of dwellings as well as interviewing occupiers.
The aims of the survey are as follows:
to monitor the physical quality of Scotland's...
Fishing Community and Industry : East Anglia and North East Scotland, 1870-1950
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
A study of the family and community life of East Anglian and North East Scotland fishermen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using both documentary research and interviews the research aimed to study the social history of a major regional industry, then in decline; the distinctive...