Scotland's Census 2022 - MV302 - General health by ethnic group by age

This dataset provides Census 2022 estimates for General health by ethnic group by age for all people in Scotland.

General health

General health is a self-assessment of a person's general state of health. People were asked to assess whether their health was very good, good, fair, bad or very bad. This assessment is not based on a person's health based over any specified period of time.

Details of classification can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here

Ethnic group

Ethnic group classifies people according to their own perceived ethnic group and cultural background. Whilst the main ethnic group categories have not changed from the question asked in Census 2011, some of the detailed response options and write-in prompts for Scotland's Census 2022 were changed based on stakeholder engagement and subsequent question testing.

Details of classification can be found here

The quality assurance report can be found here

Age

A person's age on Census Day, 20 March 2022. Infants aged under 1 year are classified as 0 years of age.

The quality assurance report can be found here