Question reference: S6W-24736
- Date lodged: 23 January 2024
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Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 2 February 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the cost has been of conducting the latest Scottish Household Survey (SHS), and how much it cost to conduct the SHS in each of the last 10 years.
Answer
The Scottish Household Survey costs in the following table cover both the social survey (approximately 10,500 households interviewed per year) and the physical survey (approximately 3,000 residential properties inspected per year). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only 3,000 households were interviewed for the 2020 social survey, and the 2020 and 2021 social surveys were carried out by telephone rather than by the usual face-to-face method. There was no 2020 physical survey, and the 2021 physical survey inspections were external only, with information on internal aspects of the property collected from the householder by telephone.
Survey fieldwork year | Cost (excluding VAT) |
2014 | £1.94 million |
2015 | £2.01 million |
2016 | £2.12 million |
2017 | £2.08 million |
2018 | £2.47 million |
2019 | £2.53 million |
2020 | £1.35 million |
2021 | £2.48 million |
2022 | £2.68 million |
2023 | £2.74 million |