The Scottish House Condition Survey

Ian MátéSHCS Manager

Communities Analytical Services

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.

SHCS Outputs Fuel Poverty

1996 2002 2003/42004/52005/60

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

Survey year

Perc

en

tage

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?

SHCS Outputs SHQS

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

No

of d

wellin

gs

000s

2002 2003/4 2004/5 2005/6

>4 Failures

4 Failures

3 Failures

2 failures

1 Failure

0 Failures

SHCS Outputs Domestic Dwellings Energy Efficiency

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

1991 1996 2002 2003/2004

2004/2005

2005/2006 Survey period

Good 7-10

Moderate 3-6

Poor 0-2

% of dwellings

National Home Energy Rating

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

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• Annual survey data starts by being 18 months out of date

• LA 3 year survey data starts by being 30 months out of date

SHCS Outputs LA 3 yr NHER data

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Clackm

annanshire

Falkirk

Noth Lanarkshire

West Lothian

South Lanarkshire

East A

yrshire

Fife

South A

yrhsire

East D

unbartonshire

West D

unbartonshire

Inverclyde

East R

enfrewshire

North A

yrshire

Glasgow

Renfrew

shire

Angus

Edinburgh

SC

OT

LAN

D

Dundee

East Lothian

Stirling

Midlothian

Dum

fries and Gallow

ay

Aberdeen

Morayshire

Perth

Argyll

Highland

Orkney

Scottish B

orders

Aberdeenshire

Shetland

Eilean S

iar

Good

Moderate

% Poor

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

Geographies

• National

• Local Authorities

• Urban Rural

• Council Tax band

• SIMD

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/

PhysicalData2003-2006SPSS File

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

SHCS Access

SHCS -Overcrowding

Local Authority

Overcrowding - Counts

OvercrowdedNot

OvercrowdedTotal

City of Edinburgh 8,000 202,000 210,000

East Lothian 1,000 39,000 40,000

Fife 1,000 157,000 157,000

Midlothian 2,000 32,000 33,000

Scottish Borders 1,000 50,000 51,000

West Lothian 1,000 69,000 70,000

SCOTLAND 85,000 2,210,000 2,295,000

Overcrowding by Local Authority Area, 2003-06, Row Percents

Local AuthorityOvercrowding - Row %

Overcrowded Not Overcrowded

Fife 1 99

West Lothian 1 99

Scottish Borders 1 99

East Lothian 3 97

SCOTLAND 4 96

City of Edinburgh 4 96

Midlothian 5 95

SHCS -Overcrowding

SHCS -Overcrowding  Overcrowded Not Overcrowded

Unweighted Totals

Local Authority

CI Range CI Range

Lower Upper Lower Upper

City of Edinburgh 5,000 11,000 199,000 205,000 586

East Lothian - 2,000 38,000 40,000 257

Fife - 2,000 155,000 158,000 402

Midlothian 1,000 2,000 31,000 32,000 262

Scottish Borders - 1,000 50,000 51,000 240

West Lothian - 2,000 68,000 70,000 260

Scotland 75,000 94,000 2,210,000 2,200,000 9,330

Unweighted Totals 318 9,012

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 150 private sector households per year

• Starts in January

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.

Boosts

• But you don’t have to buy from us.

• We are happy to provide expert and impartial advice on house condition surveys

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.

Any Questions?