National Identity and Country of Birth

National Identity

As shown in Figure 5, there is a similar split between Gypsy/Travellers and the rest of Scotland who selected their national identity to be ‘Scottish identity only’ (65.7% compared to 65.5%). Additionally, a smaller proportion of Gypsy/Travellers compared to the rest of Scotland reported that they had a Scottish and British identity only (3.6% compared to 8.2%) and a slightly higher proportion reported that they had an English identity only (5.3% compared to 2.3%) or an other identity only (9.4% compared to 6.5%).

Figure 5: Percentage of Gypsy/Traveller and rest of Scotland (excluding Gypsy/Travellers), by national Identity

Source: Scotland’s Census 2022

Country of Birth

Scotland’s Census 2022 figures show that a slightly lower proportion of Gypsy/Travellers reported their country of birth as Scotland (74.7%) when compared to the rest of Scotland (79.4%). As shown in Table 7, a slightly higher proportion of Gypsy/Travellers reported their country of birth to be ‘Rest of UK’ and, separately, ‘Rest of Europe’ when compared to the rest of Scotland.

Table 5: Percentage of Gypsy/Traveller and Rest of Scotland (excluding Gypsy/Traveller), by Country of birth

Note: Where an asterisk (*) has been placed in the table, the sample size for the statistic is below 100. Caution is advised for interpreting smaller results, because it would only take a small amount of variation in the data to see a large apparent effect on the analysis of the data. The category ‘Rest of Europe’ includes all responses for Channel Islands and Isle of Man, EU, and other non-EU European countries. ‘Rest of World’ includes Africa, the Middle East and Asia, the Americas and the Caribbean, and Antarctica, Oceania including Australasia, and Other.

Source: Scotland’s Census 2022

Migrant Indicator

Scotland’s Census asked ‘One year ago, what was your usual address?’. The results provide an indicator of the movement of people within the UK, and also of those who have migrated into the UK from abroad, in the year prior to the Census. According to the Census data, a slightly lower proportion of Gypsy/Traveller respondents reported that their address was the same as on the front of the received Census questionnaire a year ago than the rest of Scotland (85.9% and 90.2% respectively).

As shown in Table 6, a higher percentage of Gypsy/Travellers reported being a migrant from within the UK than the rest of Scotland. This means that a higher proportion of Gypsy/Travellers reported being at a different UK address, one year prior to filling the Census questionnaire.

Table 6: Percentage of Gypsy/Traveller and Rest of Scotland (excluding Gypsy/Traveller), by migrant indicator

Note: The results presented omits schoolchildren and full-time students living away from home, and responses for student term-time or boarding school address.

Where an asterisk (*) has been placed in the table, the sample size for the statistic is below 100. Caution is advised for interpreting smaller results, because it would only take a small amount of variation in the data to see a large apparent effect on the analysis of the data.

Source: Scotland’s Census 2022