Scottish Health Survey 2013 - volume 2: technical report

Presents information on the methodology and fieldwork for the Scottish Health Survey 2013.

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Table 1.2 Main sample household response, by Health Board

Selected addresses/eligible households 2013
Address and household outcome Health Board Total
Ayrshire and Arran Borders Dumfries and Galloway Fife Forth Valley Grampian Greater Glasgow & Clyde Highland Lanarkshire Lothian Orkney Islands Shetland Islands Tayside Eilean Siar
N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N % N %
Main Samplea
Selected addresses 457 134 128 570 205 764 1055 238 415 682 121 118 291 333 5511
Inelligible addresses 47 16 15 73 17 69 90 42 28 75 18 17 24 61 593
Total eligible households 410 118 113 497 188 695 965 196 387 607 103 101 267 272 4918
Household response
Responding householdsb 271 66% 87 74% 86 76% 351 71% 128 68% 439 63% 567 59% 126 64% 230 59% 372 61% 77 75% 78 77% 213 80% 234 86% 3259 66%
All interviewedc 254 62% 67 57% 68 60% 268 54% 102 54% 326 47% 424 44% 98 50% 160 41% 293 48% 60 58% 59 58% 173 65% 178 65% 2530 51%
Fully co-operatingd 238 58% 59 50% 62 55% 249 50% 91 48% 300 43% 363 38% 86 44% 126 33% 252 42% 57 55% 52 51% 155 58% 159 58% 2249 46%
Non-responding households 139 34% 31 26% 27 24% 146 29% 60 32% 256 37% 398 41% 70 36% 157 41% 235 39% 26 25% 23 23% 54 20% 38 14% 1659 34%
Non-contact - eligible 12 3% 1 1% 1 1% 1 0% 2 1% 42 6% 50 5% 5 3% 17 4% 26 4% 3 3% 0 0% 3 1% 2 1% 165 3%
Non-contact - unknown eligibility 1 0% 1 1% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 9 1% 2 0% 6 3% 0 0% 2 0% 1 1% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 22 0%
Refusal 97 24% 24 20% 23 20% 119 24% 48 26% 151 22% 293 30% 49 25% 127 33% 187 31% 18 18% 16 16% 40 15% 28 10% 1220 25%
Other non-response - eligible 29 7% 5 4% 3 3% 26 5% 10 5% 54 8% 53 5% 11 6% 13 3% 19 3% 4 4% 7 7% 11 4% 8 3% 253 5%
Other non-response - unknown eligibility 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 2 0%

a This includes the Health Board boost household response
b Households where at least one person was interviewed
c All eligible household members were interviewed, but not all had height and weight measured or agreed to take part in the biological module if eligible
d All eligible household members were interviewed, had height and weight measured and completed to take part in the biological module if eligible

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