Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Living Costs and Food Survey, 2008

Variable Details

VariableTeleHow4
LabelTelephone: by which method do you pay?
Question text By which method do you pay?
Responses
1 Account 136
2 Budgeting scheme 86
3 Some other method 0
Sysmiss 5621
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationLiving Costs and Food Survey, 2008
Interviewer InstructionsRunning prompt. Exclude payments into coin boxes, telephone cards and mobile phone top-up and 'pay as you go' cards.
UniverseNational;Households in the United Kingdom surveyed during 2008.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample;Due to funding constraints, from January 2010 the Northern Ireland (NI) sample used for the LCF will be reduced to a sample proportionate to the NI population relative to the UK.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study; From January 2006, the EFS (now LCF) moved from a financial to calendar year basis in anticipation of the IHS.