Scottish Surveys Core Questions 2024
Information on the composition, characteristics and attitudes of Scottish households and adults across a number of topic areas.
1 Overview
The Scottish Surveys Core Questions (SSCQ) are an annual Official Statistics publication for Scotland. The SSCQ pool survey responses from identical indicator questions in the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS), the Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) and the Scottish Household Survey (SHS) into one output.
The SSCQ 2024 report on a variety of overarching topics: demography, equality and health, as well as perception of crime and confidence in police.
Pooling data from the three surveys creates a sample of around 20,000 respondents for the annual publication, supporting the increased precision of estimates at the national level.
This larger sample size provides a detailed and reliable estimate of national indicators of equalities characteristics such as ethnic group, religion, country of birth, marital status, sexual orientation, age and sex. Further available variables include veteran status, education level, employment, tenure, car access and household type. For a full list of topics covered by the SSCQ, please refer to the Weighting section.
The SSCQ 2024 also allow a more detailed analysis of sub-national geographies than the source surveys provide. Annually, the SSCQ report on variables at the following levels: local authority, health board, area deprivation, urban/rural classification and police division.