Scottish Household Survey Annual Report

7 2 The Composition and Characteristics of Households in Scotland There were slightly more women (51%) than men (49%) in Scotland in 2019. Just over a quarter (28%) of the population were under 25 years old and around a quarter (25%) were 60 years old or over in 2019. Just under a quarter (24%) of adults in Scotland reported having a limiting long-term health condition in 2019, one percentage point more than the year before. The adult population in Scotland was largely ‘White: Scottish’/‘White: Other British’, with 89% of adults having reported these ethnic groups in 2019. This has dropped since 2013 when 92% of adults identified as ‘White: Scottish’/‘White: Other British’. Over the same period there has been an increase in adults identifying as ‘White: Other’ from 5% in 2013 to 7% in 2019. Just over one in forty (3%) adults reported their ethnicity as ‘Asian, Asian Scottish or Asian British’ in 2019. Nearly a quarter (24%) of all adults (16+) in Scotland were permanently retired from work. Almost half (49%), of adults aged 16-64 were in full-time employment, 13% were employed part time and 8% were self-employed. Around one in fifty (1.7%) adults reported their sexual orientation as gay or lesbian in 2019, this is an increase of half a percentage point since 2018. Religious belonging in Scotland has been declining over the past decade, and this trend continued into 2019; over half of adults (56%) reported that they didn’t belong to any religion, four percentage points more than in 2018. The proportion reporting that they didn’t belong to any religion a decade previously in 2009 was just 40%. The proportion of adults who had never been married or in a civil partnership has increased from 34% in 2013, to 36% in 2019. Just over a third (35%) of households in Scotland were single occupancy households, i.e. single adult or pensioner households.