Independent variable | Indicator type | Description |
AFCS Recipients—veterans | Count | AFCS: It provides compensation for all injuries, ill-health and death attributable to Service where the cause occurred on or after 6 April 2005.* |
Armed Forces Pension Schemes (AFPS) Recipients—veterans | Count | AFPS: Veterans in receipt of their pension under AFPS 75 and AFPS 05. AFPS 75—introduced in 1975 and closed to new members from 6 April 2005. Pension benefits are based on rank and time served. AFPS 05—introduced on 6 April 2005. Pension benefits are based on time served and final salary.* |
WPS Recipients—veterans | Count | WPS: It provides compensation for all injuries, ill-health and death attributable to Service where the cause occurred until 5 April 2005.* |
Property price | Pounds | Average price of residential properties sold in 2019.† |
SIMD | Rank | SIMD for the year of 2020.‡ |
Income deprived | Count | Number of people who are income deprived. Source: SIMD2020.‡ |
Unemployment | Count | Number of people who are employment deprived. Source: SIMD2020.‡ |
Illness factor | Standardised ratio | Comparative illness factor: standardised ratio. Source: SIMD2020.‡ |
Alcohol | Standardised ratio | Hospital stays related to alcohol misuse: standardised ratio. Source: SIMD2020.‡ |
Depression | Percentage | Proportion of population being prescribed drugs for anxiety, depression or psychosis. Source: SIMD2020.‡ |
No qualifications | Standardised ratio | Working age people with no qualifications: standardised ratio. Source: SIMD2020.‡ |
Drive General Practioner (GP) / Family Doctor | Time (minutes) | Average drive time to a GP surgery in minutes. Source: SIMD2020.‡ |
Public transport GP | Time (minutes) | Public transport travel time to a GP surgery in minutes. Source: SIMD2020.‡ |
Crime | Count | Number of recorded crimes of violence, sexual offences, domestic housebreaking, vandalism, drugs offences and common assault. Source: SIMD2020.‡ |
No central heating | Count | Number of people in households without central heating. Source: SIMD2020.‡ |
*Location of armed forces pension and compensation recipients: 2019 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/location-of-armed-forces-pension-and-compensation-recipients-2019.
†Average price by postcode: https://housepricescotland.com/.
‡SIMD: https://simd.scot/.
AFCS, Armed Forces Compensation Scheme; SIMD, Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation; WPS, War Pension Scheme.