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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Expenditure and Food Survey, 2001-2002

Variable Details

VariableTELFILT
LabelTelephone: does hhold pay for an account?
Question text The next questions are about telephone accounts paid by you (or other members of this household). May I first check, does your household pay for at least one telephone account or are all your phone bills paid direct by someone outside this household?
Responses
1 HHld pays at least one account 7051
2 Whole bill paid by someone else 56
3 SPONTANEOUS - Does not pay for telephone 252
Sysmiss 114
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationExpenditure and Food Survey, 2001-2002
Interviewer InstructionsEXCLUDE PAYMENTS INTO COIN BOXES, TELEPHONE CARDS, MOBILE PHONE TOP-UP AND PAY AS YOU GO CARDS
UniverseNational;Households in the United Kingdom during 2001-2002.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. The 2001-2002 survey is the first in the annual EFS series.
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