Coronavirus (COVID-19) - impact on wellbeing: survey summary

Footnotes

1  The Impact of COVID-19 in Scotland, dashboard (data.gov.scot)

2  Coronavirus (COVID-19): impact on communities and priorities for recovery - research - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3  Public attitudes to Coronavirus: January update - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4   Coronavirus (COVID-19): impact on wellbeing - research - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

5  The percentages on page 4 and 5 are from a sample whose work situation or working hours have changed in some way since the start of the pandemic (n=455)

6  Among those work situation has changed in some way since the start of the pandemic (n=455)

7  In this report we use the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation to describe the most deprived (SIMD 1 or 20% most deprived areas) and the least deprived (SIMD 5 or 20% least deprived areas) areas in Scotland

8  The percentages on page 8 are of a smaller sample whose household income is lower than at the start of March (n=238)

9  In this report disabled people refers to respondents who said they had a physical or mental health condition that limits day to day activity

10  Happiness and anxiety were measured on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is 'not at all' and 10 is 'completely'. In  wave one of the survey we compared respondent's happiness and anxiety levels 'yesterday' compared to a typical day before the pandemic

11  In this report loneliness refers to the proportion of people who say they feel lonely some, most, all or almost all of the time in the past week