This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for occupancy rating by accomodation type - households by household size in Scotland.
Occupancy rating
This variable calculates the difference between the actual number of bedrooms and the required number of bedrooms for the household.
The number of bedrooms required in each household is calculated using the bedroom standard which was introduced in the Housing (Overcrowding) Bill 46 (2003)
The bedroom standard indicates that for each household, each of the following groups or individuals requires a separate bedroom:
- any couple
- any person aged 21 years or more
- two people of the same sex aged between 10 and 20
- two children (whether of the same sex or not) under 10 years
- two people of the same sex where one person is aged between 10 years and 20 years and the other is aged less than 10 years
- any further person who cannot be paired appropriately.
An occupancy rating of -1 implies that a household has one fewer bedroom than required, whereas +1 implies that they have one more bedroom than required.
Accommodation type
The type of accommodation used or available for use by an individual household. Examples include:
- the whole of a terraced house
- a flat in a purpose-built block of flats
- a temporary or mobile structure
This variable is derived from question on the household form:
Household question 7: What type of accommodation is this?
- A whole house or bungalow that is:
- detached
- semi-detached
- terraced (including end-terrace)
- A flat, maisonette, or apartment that is:
- in a tenement or purpose-built block of flats (including '4-in-a-block')
- part of a converted or shared house (including bed-sits)
- in a commercial building (for example, in an office building, hotel or over a shop)
- A mobile or temporary structure:
- a caravan or other mobile or temporary structure
Details of classification can be found here
The quality assurance report can be found here
Household
A household is defined as:
one person living alone, or
a group of people (not necessarily related) living at the same address who share cooking facilities and share a living room or sitting room, or dining area
This includes:
all sheltered accommodation units in an establishment (irrespective of whether there are other communal facilities), and
all people living in caravans on any type of site that is their usual residence; this will include anyone who has no other usual residence elsewhere in the UK
A household must contain at least one person whose place of usual residence is at the address. A group of short-term residents living together is not classified as a household, and neither is a group of people at an address where only visitors are staying.
The quality assurance report can be found here