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Care Experience Survey Review: What You Told Us and What Happens Next
10th September 2025
In March 2024, we invited feedback on the Scottish Government’s Care Experience Survey Programme. This was part of a wider review to understand how the surveys are used, what could be improved, and what future care experience data should look like. Thank you to everyone who contributed through discussions and the online questionnaire. What we heard …
The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the latest survey sweep
12th August 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to stop face-to-face interviews for the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) along with the other household surveys. When fieldwork restarted in November 2021, remaining restrictions meant we had to conduct the survey differently. But we didn’t know if this would affect the quality of the data collected, who would…
Council Tax Comparisons between Scotland and England – Coherence Blog
11th July 2024
This blog represents part of our themed month to support coherence in statistics. Often, we hear statisticians refer to coherence in the context of the ability to compare statistics across different parts of the UK, or other geographies. Jon Hunter in Scottish Government’s Local Government Analytical Unit describes his recent work to improve contextual information…