Finding data

The purpose of this study was to provide an up-to-date national count of Travelling People throughout Scotland, there having been no such count since the first censuses of Travelling People undertaken in March & August 1969.

Key topics covered by this dataset include:

Local Authority Area
site name, type and location description
total number of households on the site
household type
Approximate length of time at site
total number of people in household
whether normally based in Scotland
source of information obtained.

UKDA Study Number:

3524

Spatial Coverage:

Scotland

Data Creator:

Scottish Office. Central Research Unit.

Time Period:

One-time study (although the first censuses of Travelling People were undertaken in March and August 1969).

Data Publisher:

UK Data Archive, University of Essex

Place of Publication:

Essex, UK

Documentation:

Machine-readable codebook in Adobe PDF.

File Information

File Descriptions:

2 data files and 3 documentation files:

g524.tab is the Tab delimited ASCII data file.
g524.xls is the Excel data file.
a3524uab.pdf is the portable documentation file.
*.txt are citation and readme files.

File Storage :

Written to CD-ROM 23/7/99.

Format:

Excel spreadsheet and Tab delimited format.
note: users are advised to use Excel for this study.

Data Access:

Users must register before receiving a copy of data files. Edinburgh University users may contact the Data Library for access.

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