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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2002

Variable Details

VariableHOSPSPEC
LabelShd be more local/specialist hosp? Q166
Question text Opinions differ about priorities for hospital services. Which of the statements on this card comes closest to your own view. There should be more hospitals with special expertise in certain treatments even if it means people have to travel a long way to visit them, or, there should be more local hospitals that provide a wider range of less specialised services closer to where people live?
Responses
1 more specialist hospitals 478
2 more local hospital 1044
3 (Neither / both) 129
8 Don't know 13
9 Not answered 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationScottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2002
Interviewer InstructionsCARD A6
UniversePersons aged 18 years and over resident in Scotland, including north of the Great Glen.;Scottish Adults;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. Data are collected annually
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