National Survey for Wales
The National Survey for Wales (NSW) is the Welsh Government’s key source of information on people’s views about a wide range of issues. The survey is a valuable source of information that can only come from directly asking people their views. Data is comparable down to local authority level right across Wales.
The study covers a range of topics:
• public services, such as council, education, and health services;
• local area and safety; and
• wellbeing.
The survey involves face-to-face interviews with a representative sample of people aged 16 and over across Wales, and runs all year round (fieldwork started in January 2012). The main reporting year for the survey ruins from April to March.
More information on the development, methodology, content and results of the survey can be found on the National Survey for Wales web pages.
In 2009-10 a pilot for the National Survey for Wales was carried out by the Welsh Government aimed at testing the new survey design. In particular, the pilot tested:
• The implications of moving from a household to an individual survey, i.e. interviewing not only the household reference person or their spouse/partner (as was the case with Living in Wales) but interviewing all members of the household who are aged 16 or over.
• The most effective ways of collecting a range of different information (e.g. through face to face interviews and self completion questionnaires).
The data collected for the pilot survey also provided valuable information for the Welsh Government on a range of issues. More information on the pilot for the National Survey for Wales can be found on the Welsh Government’s website.
The National Survey for Wales (NSW) is the successor to the Living in Wales (LIW) Survey series (sometimes called the Welsh Household and Dwelling Survey) which ran from 2004 to 2008 and which replaced the former Welsh House Condition Survey (WHCS). The WHCS was last carried out in 1997 and 1998, when a Household Survey was completed in 1997 and a Property Survey in 1998.
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