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Janette Purbrick Update on Scotland's Harmonisation work.

Janette Purbrick Update on Scotland's Harmonisation work. SHS USER DAY 26 November 2007. Main focus is on Scotland’s 5 large scale Surveys: Labour Force Survey Scottish House Condition Survey Scottish Household Survey Scottish Health Survey Scottish Crime and Justice Survey.

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Janette Purbrick Update on Scotland's Harmonisation work.

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  1. Janette Purbrick Update on Scotland's Harmonisation work. SHS USER DAY 26 November 2007

  2. Main focus is on Scotland’s 5 large scale Surveys: • Labour Force Survey • Scottish House Condition Survey • Scottish Household Survey • Scottish Health Survey • Scottish Crime and Justice Survey

  3. Identify Harmonisation Potential • Socio-economic core • Survey design • Respondent permission/consent incl. follow-ups • Survey letters and leaflets • Procurement • Complaint handling • Data Access Panel

  4. Socio-economic core • Established a 20 question core by examining common survey questions and important questions • Set up Scottish Harmonisation Working Group to review each question and its outputs to build a harmonised question bank • SHWG members are the managers of Scotland’s large scale surveys, managers of other Scottish surveys plus colleagues from GROS (Census) and policy areas.

  5. Survey design • Adoption of a core and modular structure • Unclustered sampling • Set up the Methodology Forum Sub-group (MFSG) to examine survey methodology issues like weighting, sampling, time series, sample additivity methodology, omnibus etc.

  6. Respondent permission/consent incl. follow-ups • Examine existing survey permissions and guarantees • Consider ethical, legal and research issues • Build a harmonised survey permission and follow-up template

  7. Survey letters and leaflets • Font • Layout • Design and logos • Consistent and clear message • Consistent contact details • FAQs

  8. Procurement • Advertising considerations • Contractor Consortiums • Pricing • Contractual issues

  9. Complaint handling • Good procedural approach to resolving • Feedback • Central Complaint recording

  10. Data Access Panel • Varied requests • Panel allows standardised approach to such requests. • Building expertise. • Protection of respondents data is paramount

  11. What next? • Promote core to smaller surveys, local authorities • Web site • Adopt a naming convention for variables • Administrative Sources • Longitudinal surveys • Work on non-core questions • Survey Integration or Harmonisation?

  12. Communication is the KEY Internal Scottish Population Surveys Co-ordinating Committee Survey Managers’ Network SHWG & MFSG Survey Technical Groups External ONS groups (IHS-SG & NSHG) Scottish Social Surveys Network

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