Scottish Household Survey Annual Report

4  align with other surveys and data vehicles and produce high quality data in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics 3 for use in National Statistics publications,  permit disaggregation of information both geographically and in terms of population sub-groups,  enable the relationships between social variables within households to be examined, supporting cross-analysis on a wide range of issues, and  if needed, the SHS should allow for detailed follow-up surveys of sub- samples from the responses to the main sample. This current report summarises the main findings from the 2019 SHS. 1.2 2019 Reporting In the past, SHS results have been reported in a series of long and detailed annual reports 4 . Reporting for 2019 data is in a new form. Given reduced resourcing during COVID-19, we have decided to prioritise publishing all the data from the 2019 SHS over producing the annual report in full. The key changes to 2019 reporting are:  Data from the 2019 SHS for Scotland and local authorities has, for the first time, been published at the same time using the SHS Data Explorer 5 .  The annual report (this publication) is much shorter containing a short summary highlighting the key findings for each topic. As previously, the annual report is accompanied by a separate infographic summary of the key findings 6 . Additionally, a 20 years of Scotland’s People comic story and a summary of some of the statistics in a new form designed by young people and co-produced with YoungScot will be published. 3 https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/ 4 https://www.gov.scot/collections/scottish-household-survey-publications 5 https://scotland.shinyapps.io/sg-scottish-household-survey-data-explorer 6 https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781839609855