Scottish Social Attitudes 2023

The 2023 Scottish Health Survey results provide a crucial picture of health and wellbeing in Scotland and how this has changed over the past two decades.
It provides information about how healthy people are, what health services people use and examines the health and health-related behaviour of different groups in society.
The data collected also informs the Scottish Government National Performance Framework and feeds into a nationwide health strategy.
The latest report is from data collected in 2023.
The Scottish Health Survey was first conducted in 1995 and then again in 1998 and 2003 and has been carried out annually since 2008.
The SHeS 2023 launched in March 2023. Interviews for all samples were undertaken using primarily an in-home face-to-face approach. Potential respondents were contacted by letter and invited to take part in an in-home interview.
Each survey in the SHeS series has a set of main questions and measurements (height and weight and, if applicable, blood pressure, waist circumference and saliva samples), plus modules of questions on specific health conditions and health risk factors that vary from year to year. Each year the main sample has been augmented by an additional boosted sample for children.
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