Social environment: key data sources

The Scottish Household Survey includes sections on local neighbourhood/community safety, social networks, disputes with neighbours, education & lifelong learning, recycling and volunteering.

The Census includes some data relevant to the social environment (e.g. household composition, social grade, educational qualification).

The General Household Survey collects information on a range of topics from people living in private households in Great Britain including employment, education and more recently, social capital. 

Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics includes some data on social environment related topics.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) manages a social capital project, involving research into social capital generally, development of a harmonised set of survey questions and investigation into the use of administrative data to measure social capital, and international collaboration.

Specific data sources for crime, education and community well-being are available from those pages within this website.

Note also that some social environment related data (e.g. lone parent households, lone pensioner households, adults with no qualifications) are included within the new (2008) CHP profiles (as well as within the old (2004) community profiles).