Scottish Surveys Core Questions 2024
Information on the composition, characteristics and attitudes of Scottish households and adults across a number of topic areas.
3 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 three source surveys in March 2020. This greatly impacted the fieldwork for the source surveys and led to the SCJS not taking place in 2020/2021.
Fieldwork restrictions were lifted for the 2022 fieldwork period, but many surveys still offered remote interviews and adopted a ‘knock-to-nudge’ approach. Fieldwork approaches for the SSCQ 2024 are aligned with pre-COVID methods.
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.
The SSCQ 2024 are most comparable to the SSCQ 2023.