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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

ONS Omnibus Survey, October 2002

Variable Details

VariableSPEC1
LabelOther purpose of journey
Responses
1 1
Delivering Church Magazines 1
Health Centre 1
Helping my husband deliver charity bags. 1
Household duties 1
TO POST BOX 1
To the station (not necessarily for work) 1
Walking in the lunch break 1
church 1
church and visiting 1
day centre] 1
doctors 1
doctors, hospital 1
for company lives alone in flat-nice to see others 1
get out of the office 1
go to church 1
going round a flower or antique show 1
going to the bus stop 1
help out daughter 1
its resp's main form of transport as hitches lifts in cars otherwise 1
just to get out of the office 1
leads horses 1
looking after 8 acres of grounds 1
looking after sheep and cows on small holding 1
meetings community/volutary 1
necessity only when I cannot use any other form of transport 1
pay rent 1
to church 2
to church/ age concern 1
to get to parked car 1
to go to church 1
to library 1
to pay the rent 1
to the bookies 1
to the bus stop 1
to the health practitioners 1
to the pub 3
to visit doctor 1
too long to wait for public transport + to get to train station 1
walk to bus stop 1
walkinf round supermarket 1
walking around the estate 1
walking baby to sleep 1
walking in Rome on holiday 1
walking round sheep and feeding the stock 1
walking round the shops and taking my recycling and rubbish down the village 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationONS Omnibus Survey, October 2002
Interviewer InstructionsRECORD OTHER PURPOSE Remember to code into M320_4M 1 to 7 where possible
UniverseAdults, aged 16 or over, living in private households in Great Britain.;Adults;Households;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study, monthly (up to year 2000), 8 cycles per year thereafter.
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