Scotland (1998) - Where do the Murdochs live now?

The brief answer ...

Available figures would imply there are about 5000 Murdochs presently living in Scotland, almost 0.1% of the population.

There are two clear concentrations above the national average, firstly in Galloway and Ayrshire and secondly in rural Aberdeenshire, Moray and Banff.

There is a wide belt of low concentration between these highs stretching from the Highland and Islands through Perthshire, Angus, Dundee, Fife, Lothians, Edinburgh and the Borders.

The full story ...

This map is based on the listings from the 14 telephone directories of Scotland.

Notes:

• The largest source of error is in estimated the total number of listings. Murdoch figures were counted in 5s. A typical error of +/-0.7 should apply.
• There is no reason to believe that Murdochs are significantly different as regards being ex-directory. The figures where calulated using the number of Murdochs (with the occasional Murdock) counted to the nearest 5 divided by an estimate of the total listings (number of pages X 520 average listings per page). This was reduced to a per 10000 figure. There is an average of 9.5 Murdochs per 10000 telephone entries nationwide.
• Orkney and Shetland listings are in the Aberdeen book.
• Glasgow North and South, both gave 10.0.
• The Health Board populations below have no overlap. The ratio of listings to population where Health and Phonebook area match is around 2.5. Slightly higher for urban (more ex-directory?), lower in rural. From this it is possible to estimate directory overlap and propose adjusted figures
  • There is an directory area overlap between Fife and Tayside (6.0 & 5.9) , but these figures so close this isn't significant.
  • There is also an overlap between Glasgow South and Ayrshire Coast (10.0 and 15.6) with approx 90,000 Glasgow entries in the Ayrshire Coast directory this suggests an Ayrshire only figure should be about 3.0 greater and about the same as the Southwest.
  • Similarly, Central appears to contain approx 100,000 duplicate Glasgow entries. This would suggest a Central only figure of around 2.0 lower which would be consistent with Fife, Lothian and Tayside.

This map is based on 12 of the 15 National Health Service (Scotland), Health Board figures for population in June 1992. Total population of Scotland was 5.111 Million. Regional populations are multiplied by the Murdochs per 10000 above.

Notes:

• Again, there is no reason to believe that Murdochs are significantly different with regards to age profile or family size. Figures were derived by applying the above telephone based figures to the total regional populations. Figures are rounded to the nearest 50.
• Western Isles is added to Highland; Orkney and Shetland to Grampian.
• NE and Aberdeen merge into Grampian. Average 10.75 from 12.5 and 9.0 used.
• Since both Directory and Health Board boundaries are based on physical geography they normally coincide.
  • Two significant exceptions mentioned above in the previous notes would suggest that Ayrshire should be higher by about 100 and Central lower by about 50.
  • Other minor mismatches between Health and Telephone areas occur where per10000 figures are similar or in areas of low population.