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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992

Variable Details

Variablevc121a1
LabelNAME OF BENEFIT 1
Question text Which of these are you (or your husband/wife/partner) receiving?
Responses
1 Unemployment Benefit 62
2 Supplementary Benefit/income support 111
3 Unemployment & supplementary benefit/income support 43
4 Sickness Benefit 10
5 Invalidity Benefit 2
6 Industrial injury benefit/pension 1
7 Attendance allowance 1
8 Non-contributory invalidity pension/severe disablement allow 2
9 Mobility allowance 2
10 Family income supplement/family credit 8
11 Child benefit 81
12 One parent benefit 3
13 Maternity allowance 4
14 Invalid care allowance 0
15 Housing benefit 29
16 Other state benefit/allowance 4
99 Don't know 0
Sysmiss 1284
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992
Interviewer InstructionsPROBE: 'Any others?' UNTIL FINAL 'No'. WRITE IN AND CODE EACH BENEFIT RECEIVED IN GRID BELOW. IF RESPONDENT AND SPOUSE/PARTNER RECEIVE SEPARATELY SAME BENEFIT, ENTER ONCE ONLY.
UniverseA clustered 10% sample of all respondents to an earlier BCS70 follow-up, living in England and Wales during 1992, who were not known to have died, emigrated or refused.;National
SamplingOne-stage cluster sample;A simple random sample of the BCS70 cohort
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort
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