Census
2011:
Release 2D Key results on long-term health conditions, central heating and
deprivation
Release 3C Detailed characteristics on Ethnicity, Identity, Language and
Religion in Scotland
The statistics
published yesterday by the Registrar General for Scotland on the
Scotland’s Census website (www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk), present key results from the 2011
Census on long-term health conditions, central heating and deprivation (Release
2D), and further details on ethnicity, identity, language and religion (Release
3C), from national to local level.
Key points
- Release 2D
Long-term
health conditions
- In 2011,
70 per cent of the population in Scotland did not have any type of long-term
health condition.
- The most
common category for those who reported at least one long-term health condition
was ‘Other condition’ (19 per cent of total population,
988,000).
- ‘Physical disability’ and ‘Deafness or
partial hearing loss’ were the second and third most common categories of
long-term health conditions, each affecting 7 per cent of the population
(353,000 and 351,000 respectively).
Central
heating
- In
Scotland in 2011, almost all households (98 per cent, 2.3 million) had central
heating, an increase of five percentage points from 2001 (93 per cent, 2.0
million).
- Gas was
the most common type of central heating in most council areas, used by an
average of 74 per cent of households, with the exception of Shetland Islands
and Orkney Islands, where there is no mains gas supply, and Eilean Siar which
has limited gas supply.
- Electric
central heating was the most common type in Orkney Islands (41 per cent of
households, 4,000) and Shetland Islands (48 per cent, 5,000). Oil central
heating was the most common type in Eilean Siar (40 per cent,
5,000).
Deprivation
- In
Scotland in 2011, 40 per cent of households were not categorised as deprived in
any of the four measured dimensions: employment, education, health and
housing.
- 32 per
cent of households were deprived in one dimension, 20 per cent in two
dimensions, six per cent in three dimensions and the remaining one per cent in
all four dimensions.
- The most
common dimensions for deprivation of households were education and health,
either as the only dimension of deprivation (14 per cent and 11 per cent
respectively of all households) or in combination with each other (12 per cent
of all households).
Key points
– Release 3C
Country of
birth by English language skills
- The
proportion of Scotland’s population aged three and over who could speak,
read and write English was 94 per cent. This proportion was lowest for those
born in the European Union (EU) Accession countries (75 per cent) or in the
Middle East and Asia (89 per cent).
- The
proportion of people aged three and over who could only understand (but not
speak, read or write) English was highest (four per cent) for those born in EU
Accession countries. This group of people also had the highest proportion
(three per cent) who had no skills in English.
The other tables
included in Release 3C are all ‘Local Characteristics’ (LC)
versions of tables that have already been published as ‘Detailed
Characteristics’ (DC) tables in Releases 3A and 3B. They provide
information down to census output area (the lowest level of geography for which
census tables are produced) but generally include less detailed categories than
the DC version of the tables as a statistical disclosure control measure. The
tables are on:
- Age by
sex
- Ethnic
group by age
- National
identity by sex by age
- Country
of birth by age
- Proficiency in English by age
- Language
other than English used at home by age
- English
language skills by age
- Ethnic
group by religion
- National
identity by religion
- Country
of birth by ethnic group
- Country
of birth by religion
- Country
of birth by national identity
- Country
of birth by age of arrival in the UK
All the data
contained in these two releases can be accessed on the Scotland’s Census
website (www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk).
Notes To
Editors
1. Remaining data
on other census topics will be released on a rolling basis during 2014. More
information on the census release timetable can be found in the Outputs
Prospectus linked from our website at http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk.
2. The
Scotland’s Census website (http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk) provides access to all the data
contained in Releases 2D and 3C. The website also provides visualisation tools
to aid interpretation of the statistics.
3. Further explanatory information on the 2011 Census can
be found on thehttp://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk website. Information on other
demographic statistics published by National Records of Scotland (NRS) can be
found on the NRS website (www.nrscotland.gov.uk)
4. Information on
the census results in England & Wales can be found on the Office for
National Statistics website at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ and information on the Northern Irish
Census results can be found on their website at http://www.nisra.gov.uk.
5. For further
information on the availability of more detailed data and tables, please
contact Statistics Customer Services using the contact details below.
Media enquiries
should be directed to:
Email: 2011comms@gro-scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Telephone: 0131
314 4308/ 0131 314 4582/ 0131 314 4391
Further
information about the statistics is available from:
Customer
Services
National Records of Scotland
Ladywell House
Ladywell Road
Edinburgh EH12 7TF
Tel: 0131 314 4299
E-mail: customer@gro-scotland.gsi.gov.uk