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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

ONS Omnibus Survey, February 2004

Variable Details

Variablespec7
LabelOther things you have done unpaid?
Responses
1 1
HELP WITH ANY PSOCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS 1
Help Mom's Sister 1
Help out in school library 1
Help someone to move home 1
Helped a local lady at the shops 1
Make telephone calls 1
Pastoral care for local elderly people 1
accompanying father to hospital 1
advice during job/counselling customers 1
assisting with transport 1
beauty treatment 1
do someones hair for blind friend 1
drove friends butchers van when his brother had a stroke. Unpaid 1
drove someone to hospital 1
give a lift, 1
give lifts 2
given emmotional support & prayed for them 1
giving lifts 1
giving someone a lift in my car 1
help friend move house;give lifts; 1
installed windows 1
look after neighbours dogs 1
looking after dog 1
meet up with friend wirth mental illness 1
pet sitting 1
post mail for neighbours help neighbour when ill 1
pro bono legal work 1
provide transport 1
provide transport to work,shops 1
sewing 1
stop taking drugs and shop lifting 1
take aunt out for day trips 1
take elderly aunt out in wheelchair 1
taking a friend as unpaid lodger temporarily 1
to church 1
took a neighbour to hospital 1
transport friend to visit hospiytal 1
transport to doctor for sick neighbour; interior design for friend 1
transport,representing colleague dealing with mgmnt 1
walked daughters dog 1
washing for someone 1
when I go to my missus's grave I always cut the grass on the neighbouring graves,as I know the people who the graves belong to 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationONS Omnibus Survey, February 2004
Interviewer InstructionsPLEASE RECORD OTHER. REMEMBER TO RE-CODE 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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