Scottish Surveys Core Questions 2022
Information on the composition, characteristics and attitudes of Scottish households and adults across a number of topic areas.
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1.2 Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the SSCQ
To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Scottish Government suspended face-to-face interviewing for the household surveys in March 2020. This greatly impacted the fieldwork for the centralised surveys and led to the SCJS not taking place in 2020/2021.
Although fieldwork restrictions were lifted for the 2022 fieldwork period, many surveys still offered remote interviews and adopted a ‘knock-to-nudge’ approach. The different fieldwork approaches of each survey are accounted for in the weighting of the individual surveys.
Due to the inconsistencies in data collection methods and the data unavailability of the SCJS in 2020/21, the SSCQ were not published for 2020 and 2021, causing a break in the time-series. The Multiyear SSCQ analysis therefore starts afresh with the 2022 data. The next Multiyear SSCQ analysis covering the years 2022-2023 will be published alongside the SSCQ 2023 in early 2025.
The SSCQ 2022 are most comparable to the SSCQ 2019.
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