Summary information

Study title

Counting Travellers in Scotland, 1992

Creator

Scottish Office, Central Research Unit

Study number / PID

3524 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-3524-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The prime purpose of the 1992 count was to provide an up to date estimate of the total numbers of Traveller households in Scotland, together with their distribution District by District. The secondary purpose was to obtain information about the nature of the Traveller population to assess current demographic profiles and the nature of accommodation used by Travellers.
Main Topics:

The key topics covered by this dataset are Local Authority Area; site name; site location description; total number of households on the site; site type; site description; household type (family unit v. other grouping); Travellers v. New Age Travellers; accommodation occupied; approximate length of time at the location; whether normally based in Scotland; total number of people in household; number of people in specified age groups; source of information; other relevant information.

MigrationSocial behaviour and attitudes

AGEFAMILIESHOUSINGHOUSING TENUREHUMAN SETTLEMENTMINORITY GROUPSMOBILE HOMESRESIDENTIAL MOBILITYSITESSUBCULTURAL GROUPSTENTSTRAVELLERS' SITES

Data collection period

01/03/1992 - 01/04/1992

Country

Scotland

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Families/households

National

Travellers

Universe

Travelling people households (including New Age Travellers) in Scotland in 1992

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

(in some cases proxy information about a household was allowed)

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1999

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Gentleman, H. (1993) Counting travellers in Scotland : the 1992 picture :: estimates of the number, distribution and characteristics of travelling people in Scotland in 1992 based on a count undertaken for the Scottish Office [Research report], (The Scottish Office Central Research Unit Papers), Edinburgh: Scottish Office Central Research Unit.