Scottish Settlements Urban and Rural Areas in Scotland

Annex C - The Methodology for 2000

Introduction

1. This Annex sets out our approach to defining settlements for the 2001 Census. This approach will enable users to derive divisions of Scotland into urban and rural by, for example:

• selecting settlements with more than a given population;
• creating drive-time zones around settlements with more than a given population

  or by some other construction.

While the methodology developed is basically sound, we accept that there may be a need for some further refinement in the light of experience and user comment.