Public Authority Housing Stock (Housing Statistics for Scotland)

Published by Scottish Government in 1998

Data Type:Administrative

time series tables of stock owned by local authorities and Scottish Homes, by: type of property (house, high rise flat, tenement flat, 4 in a block, other flat/maisonette), year of construction (pre-1919, 1919-1944, 1945-1964, 1965-1982, post-1982), construction type (traditional, non-traditional), normal use of stock (normal letting stock, temporary accommodation for the homeless, other)

Time

1998 - On-going (Annual)

Dataset Quality

These are administrative data and therefore offer complete coverage of the 32 local authorities of Scotland. As government data, they can be considered high quality. Nevertheless, a Data Quality report is provided with alongside all HSfS statistical releases

Dataset Access and Use

A full freely accessible data table is provided via the Scottish Government website which gives time series data at the local authority level for 1998-2015

Social and academic research is an acknowledged use of these statistics according to the 'Use of the data' documentation provided alongside the HSfS releases

Geography

Coverage: Scotland

Units: Local authority

Coverage map

Resources

URL
https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20160106111941/http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Housing-Regeneration/HSfS/VacantStock