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

Continuous 2007, 2008, 2009• 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• Annual survey data starts by being 18 months out of date

• LA 3 year survey data starts by being 30 months out of date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 Local Authorities 3 yr data Dwellings by % in NHERgroups by LA

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

LA

Good

Moderate% Poor

SHCS Outputs 3 yr Local Authorities data Clackmannanshire

Falkirk

Noth Lanarkshire

West Lothian

South Lanarkshire

East Ayrshire

Fife

South Ayrhsire

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

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 Access

Local Authority

Overcrowding - Counts

Overcrowded Not Overcrowded Total

Argyll & Bute 1,000 42,000 42,000

Eilean Siar - 12,000 13,000

Highland 2,000 97,000 99,000

Morayshire 2,000 36,000 38,000

Orkney - 9,000 9,000

Perth & Kinross 3,000 60,000 63,000

Stirling 1,000 35,000 36,000

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

SHCS AccessOvercrowding by Local Authority Area, 2003-06, Row Percents

Local AuthorityOvercrowding - Row %

Overcrowded Not Overcrowded

Argyll & Bute 2 98

Eilean Siar 3 97

Highland 2 98

Inverclyde 5 95

Morayshire 5 95

Orkney 3 97

Perth & Kinross 5 95

Stirling 3 97

SCOTLAND 4 96

SHCS AccessOvercrowding by Local Authority, 2003-06 - Confidence Intervals

 Overcrowded Not Overcrowded

Unweighted Totals

Local AuthorityCI Range CI Range

Lower Upper Lower Upper

Highland - 4,000 95,000 99,000

246

Stirling - 2,000 35,000 36,000

300

West Dunbartonshire 1,000 3,000 40,000 42,000

237

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  

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

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.

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

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

Any Questions?