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Household Transport in 1999 and 2000: Some Scottish Household Survey results
1. Introduction
1.1 This bulletin provides information, collected by the Scottish Household Survey (SHS) in 1999 and 2000, about the transport facilities available to private households, and about some travel by household members. The topics covered include the availability of cars for private use; the types of motor vehicles that are available; estimated annual vehicle mileages; people's possession of driving licences and their frequency of driving; estimated annual personal mileage driven; reasons for driving and for not driving; estimated expenditure on public transport fares; people's frequency of walking and cycling; travel to work; travel to school; adults with limited mobility and adults with Orange or Blue Badges. Almost all the statistics given here were extracted at the end of March 2002, so will not take account of subsequent revisions to the SHS database. Other bulletins provide information on (e.g.) the kinds of journeys made by adults, and the variation in the patterns of transport and travel across Scotland.
1.2 The SHS collects a wide range of information. Some questions are asked about the household as a whole, and all the people in it; some relate only to one randomly-chosen adult (aged 16 or over) member of the household; and some are asked only about one schoolchild (if there is one in the household). Some questions are answered on behalf of the household by the Highest Income Householder (please see section A.4 of the "Notes and Definitions") or his/her spouse/partner; others are answered by the randomly-chosen adult member of the household on behalf of him/herself. The results are weighted to take account of differences in selection probabilities. As with all such surveys, factors such as sampling variability and non-response bias may affect the results ( see section A.12). And, as it is a survey of private households, the SHS does not cover some sections of the population - for example, it does not collect information about many students, such as those who live in halls of residence ( see section B.2.3 of the background information about the survey).
1.3 The main change in this edition is the inclusion of statistics on personal mileage driven, vehicle mileage, and the amount spent on public transport in the last seven days. The previous edition's detailed tables on the accessibility and frequency of bus services, and on reasons for not using bus services more often, now appear in the statistical bulletin "Bus and Coach Statistics: 2000-01", along with information from other sources on buses and coaches.
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