Question reference: S5W-10587
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 3 August 2017
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 August 2017
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to expand and enhance the data available on loneliness and social isolation.
Answer
As part of the development of our strategy to tackle social isolation and loneliness, we are considering carefully the appropriate data sources to measure progress in this area. This will be dependent to an extent on any agreed outcomes and indicators which are formed around the Strategy. Data sets we currently use include the Scottish Household Survey, Scottish Health Survey, Scottish Health Behaviours of School-aged Children Study and the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey (SSA).