Of the 465 who answered this question in the Websurvey, 86 (18%) described themselves as being something other than Scottish. 87% of these characterised themselves as purely identified with a country other than Scotland, and of these the largest grouping were Americans, followed by Canadians. Seven described themselves as a combination of identities, with none of these being Scottish.  21 had Scottish as part of a number of identities more than  two. 

 Of those who characterised themselves as primarily Scottish, 47% (137) were purely Scottish.   There were a large number of hyphenated identities.   46 (10% of respondents to the identity question) described their identity as X-Scottish.  The largest groups of “Scottish-” identity were American (15%), Canadian (4%), Australian (3%), New Zealander (1%) and three respondents described themselves as Scottish-British.   

If we correlate birth-county with identity we find that more respondents born in the USA define themselves as specifically Scottish-American (60, which equates to 28% of the number of people born in the USA giving an identity) than purely American (24%) and that 22% define themselves as American-Scottish.  A similar relationship occurs with Canadian born and New Zealand born respondents – more define themselves as a combination of their identity and Scottishness than by their own country of birth.  Conversely, of those born in Scotland, only 6% define themselves as being purely something other than Scottish, whilst 27% define themselves as being Scottish in combination with another identity, and 64% describe themselves as purely Scottish.

 If we correlate country of residence with identity we find similar results.  Comparing the USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, if the  Country of Residence is X, more people define themselves as (X - Scottish, or Scottish - X) than define themselves as purely X.  Everyone resident within Scotland describes themselves as Scottish, with only seven respondents describing themselves as Scottish and something else.  Thus neither country of birth or country of residence, unless they are Scotland, seem to have a bearing on Scottish identity.

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