Supporting information

h2>Scottish Household Survey, years used and comparisons over time

In previous editions of the report, figures were averaged over five years. The change in approach to identifying areas affected by health conditions was described in the section on the definition of disability. This has caused a change to averaging Scottish Household Survey results over the two years 2022 and 2023 in the main tables, where possible. This has been done to give a larger sample size for areas affected than for one year. A set of time series tables has been provided for a selection of statistics.

If comparing with the results in the 2021 report, which were averaged over the years 2017 to 2021, it’s important to bear in mind that the survey methodology was changed in the years 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID pandemic. Most notably, the survey was moved to telephone interviewing rather than face to face.

The full Scottish Household Survey questionnaire can be found on the Scottish Government website.

Figures for individual years are available by disability (but not any further sub-divisions) in Transport and Travel in Scotland.

Your Bus Journey and Rail User Survey

Other than the Scottish Household Survey, the two main sources for the Accessible Travel framework outcome indicators are the Your Bus Journey survey and the Rail User Survey, both carried out by Transport Focus. These surveys replaced the Bus Passenger survey (in 2023) and National Rail Passenger survey (in 2021).

The analysis used in this publication is taken from the Transport Focus Data Hub.